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What's one thing Wicomico Middle gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
827
Middle
DISTRICT 741 · STATE 764
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WICOMICO COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240069001319
Wicomico Middle
635 E Main St, Salisbury, MD 21804 · (410) 677-5145 · Wicomico County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL827 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 5% of Maryland public middle schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Maryland public middle schools
Student : Teacher
11.2:1
74 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.4:1 · STATE 14.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
68%
564 students
DISTRICT 59% · STATE 54%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 278 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 267 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 282 | 34% |
Student demographics
66%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · STATE 73% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
MCAP 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 3-4)English Language Arts
29.7%
MD avg 50.6% . +3.8pp since 2023
Math
10.0%
MD avg 34.8% . -4.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 30 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 10 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 5 points.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 29.7% | 10.0% |
| 2023-24 | 25.9% | 14.6% |
% Proficient (Levels 3-4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: MCAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of MD schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
20.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.9%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-13.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 20% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 34% typical for Maryland schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Wicomico Middle
Wicomico Middle's state test result (20.1% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wicomico Middle this school | 827 | 68.2% | 20.1% |
| Middle River Middle Baltimore | 822 | 66.1% | 21.4% |
| Edgewood Middle Edgewood | 936 | 69.2% | 26.5% |
| Stemmers Run Middle Baltimore | 831 | 70.2% | 17.5% |
| Salisbury Middle Salisbury | 847 | 61.3% | 31.6% |
| Spring Ridge Middle Lexington Park | 913 | 63.7% | 31.8% |
Matched among Maryland middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Wicomico Middle ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 20.1% | #202 of 223 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 10.0% | #223 of 223 ▼ 72 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 29.7% | #199 of 223 ▲ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 827 | #93 of 230 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.2:1 | #14 of 225 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 66.4% | #81 of 225 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 68.2% | #51 of 227 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +13.4% | #34 of 95 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
827
-2 (0%) vs 2020
+12% since 1990-91, when it was 739
Student : Teacher
11.2:1
was 11.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 827 | 74 | 11.2:1 | 68% (564) |
| 2023-24 | 796 | 72 | 11.1:1 | 68% (539) |
| 2022-23 | 819 | 72 | 11.4:1 | 68% (554) |
| 2020-21 | 829 | 70 | 11.8:1 | 79% (659) |
| 2017-18 | 729 | 66.5 | 11.0:1 | 73% (530) |
| 2015-16 | 700 | 64 | 10.9:1 | 71% (495) |
| 2010-11 | 708 | 66 | 10.7:1 | 64% (452) |
| 2000-01 | 743 | 55 | 13.5:1 | 35% (258) |
| 1990-91 | 739 | 48 | 15.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Wicomico Middle.
Since 2017-18: students up 13% (729 to 827); teachers up 11% (66.5 to 74).
About Wicomico Middle
Wicomico Middle is a medium-sized middle school based in Salisbury, Maryland. Classes run from 6 through 8, and the school has 827 students.
In Wicomico County Public Schools, 25 schools enroll a combined 15,582 students.
A majority of students at Wicomico Middle, 51%, are Black. The remaining shares are 21% Hispanic, 18% White, 8% multiracial, and 3% Asian. Wicomico County as a whole is about 27% Black, so the school's share is higher. By the diversity index, Wicomico Middle comes in at 66%.
Wicomico Middle's 74 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 11.2:1. That ratio is under the 14.3:1 average for middle schools in Maryland. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 68%. The average for public schools in Wicomico County is 59%.
Wicomico Middle is graded D by allk12, scoring above 5% of Maryland public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
On allk12's BeatsExpectations measure, Wicomico Middle is among the bottom 10% of schools in Maryland. Predicted: 33.9%. Actual: 20.1%.
Census Bureau estimates for Wicomico County show that median household income is about $76,210, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 30%, and about 9% of people live in poverty. A total of 25 public schools operate in Wicomico County, serving about 15,582 students.
The next-closest public school is Wicomico High, about 0.4 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Wicomico Middle. On proficiency, Wicomico Middle is behind the 32.8% nearby average, ranking 8th of 8.
NCES assigns Wicomico Middle the locale City: Small, meaning inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, enrollment moved from 829 to 827, a small change.
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Wicomico County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
104,914
Census ACS
Median income
$76,210
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
30%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
25
15,582 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Wicomico County Public Schools
- James M. Bennett HighHigh · 1,474 students
- Wicomico HighHigh · 1,304 students
- Parkside HighHigh · 1,272 students
- Prince Street SchoolElementary · 976 students
- Bennett MiddleMiddle · 963 students
- Delmar ElementaryElementary · 914 students
Other schools in Salisbury
- James M. Bennett HighHigh · 1,474 students
- Wicomico HighHigh · 1,304 students
- Parkside HighHigh · 1,272 students
- Prince Street SchoolElementary · 976 students
- Salisbury MiddleMiddle · 847 students
- Beaver Run SchoolElementary · 741 students
Nearby schools
- Wicomico High0.4 mi · 1,304
- Prince Street School0.7 mi · 976
- North Salisbury Elementary0.9 mi · 526
- East Salisbury Elementary0.9 mi · 486
- Charles H. Chipman Elementary1.0 mi · 303
- Parkside High1.4 mi · 1,272
Frequently asked questions
About Wicomico MiddleHow large is Wicomico Middle?
Wicomico Middle enrolls approximately 827 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Wicomico Middle serve?
Wicomico Middle serves grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at Wicomico Middle?
Approximately 11.2:1 students per teacher at Wicomico Middle.
What is the student diversity at Wicomico Middle?
Student demographics at Wicomico Middle are roughly 18% White, 21% Hispanic, 51% Black, 3% Asian, 8% Two or more.
What district is Wicomico Middle in?
Wicomico Middle is part of Wicomico County Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.