Spring Ridge Middle

Spring Ridge Middle is one of the reasonably sized middle schools in Lexington Park, Maryland, operated by St. Mary's County Public Schools, with 913 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

St. Mary's County Public Schools comprises 26 schools with combined enrollment of 16,905 students; Spring Ridge Middle is among them.

Demographically, Spring Ridge Middle shows that the largest single group is Black at 35%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 32% White, 17% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 15% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 14.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 64% of students at Spring Ridge Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, St. Mary's County runs at roughly 41%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Spring Ridge Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.5%, the actual is 31.8%, a residual of -4.7 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (St. Mary's County) logs that median household income runs about $119,446, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across St. Mary's County's 28 public schools (combined enrollment of about 16,905 students), Spring Ridge Middle is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Park Hall Elementary, roughly 2.9 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Spring Ridge Middle. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Spring Ridge Middle ranks 8th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 42.5%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Spring Ridge Middle's enrollment has shrank 6% since 2018, when it stood at 976 (now 913). The White share of enrollment edged down from 43% to 32% over that span.

Inside the community feed, members of the Spring Ridge Middle community share and discuss school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.