Southern Middle School

Southern Middle School is a small middle school in Oakland, Maryland. There are 448 students enrolled, covering grades 6 through 8. That puts enrollment 41% below the 764-student average for middle schools in Maryland.

Southern Middle School is one school in a 12-school district, Garrett County Public Schools, which enrolls 3,853 students.

By race and ethnicity, Southern Middle School is 95% White. Other groups include 2% Hispanic and 2% multiracial. In Garrett County overall, the White share is about 95%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 9, compared with 70 nationally.

Teacher count: 36.1 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 11.7:1. Across middle schools in Maryland, the average ratio is 14.3:1. Roughly 56% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That is in line with the 59% average for public schools in Garrett County.

The school is in Garrett County, where the median household earns about $67,688 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 26% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 8%. Southern Middle School shares Garrett County with 11 other public schools.

Southern Middle School is less than a tenth of a mile from Broad Ford Elementary, its nearest public school. Southern Middle School has 4 other public schools within five miles.

For locale, NCES codes Southern Middle School as Town: Distant.

Over the 6 years from 2017-18 to 2023-24, enrollment decreased 13%. The number of students per teacher dropped from 14.3 to 12.4 over 6 years.

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