Urbana Middle

Urbana Middle is one of the reasonably sized middle schools in Ijamsville, Maryland, run under Frederick County Public Schools, with 1,090 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. That puts it 43% above the typical public school in Maryland, which averages around 764 students.

Within Frederick County Public Schools, which oversees 67 schools and 48,054 students, Urbana Middle is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Urbana Middle logs that 40% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school reports 25% Asian, 14% Hispanic, 12% Black, 9% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 68% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 62 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.3:1, putting Urbana Middle higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 16% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Frederick County (around 37%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Urbana Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.5%, the actual is 65.5%, a residual of +1.0 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Frederick County indicate the typical household earns roughly $122,002 per year, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Urbana Middle is one of 69 public schools in Frederick County (combined enrollment of about 48,054 students).

Urbana High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Urbana Middle ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 67.1%.

Urbana Middle operates from a low-density location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Urbana Middle has expanded 13%, going from 964 students in 2018 to 1,090 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 53% to 40% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 19.3:1 in 2018 to 17.6:1 in 2025.

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