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Snow Hill Middle
Test scores
MCAP 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 3-4)What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 62 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 64 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Maryland schools, those numbers are about 51 and 35. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 42% typical for Maryland schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 19 points, placing it in Maryland's top 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Snow Hill Middle
Snow Hill Middle is an intermediate school of tight-knit scale in Snow Hill, Maryland, overseen by Worcester County Public Schools, educateing 404 students in grades 4 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 47% leaner than the state mean of about 764.
Worcester County Public Schools runs 13 schools in total, collectively educating 7,002 students. Snow Hill Middle is one of those campuses.
Demographically, Snow Hill Middle shows that White students make up the majority at 59%; the rest comes out to 25% Black, 8% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 79% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, Snow Hill Middle logs 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.3:1, putting Snow Hill Middle tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 54% of students at Snow Hill Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Snow Hill Middle sits in the top 10% of Maryland schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 42.0%; actual is 60.6%, +18.6 points clear of the demographic baseline.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Worcester County indicate the typical household earns roughly $81,745 per year, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Snow Hill Middle is one of 14 public schools in Worcester County (combined enrollment of about 7,002 students).
The closest other public school is Cedar Chapel Special School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Snow Hill Middle ranks 4th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 58.3%.
Snow Hill Middle operates from a low-density location.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Snow Hill Middle has grew 4%, going from 390 students in 2018 to 404 in 2025.
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