Public school / High
Francis Scott Key High
Union Bridge, Maryland
- NCES ID
- 240021000533
- District
- Carroll County Public Schools
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Francis Scott Key High is a public high school in Union Bridge, Maryland, run by Carroll County Public Schools. It enrols 944 students — the 9769th largest of 1,425 public schools in Maryland.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
944
Teachers
52.0
Students per teacher
18.2
Free or reduced-price lunch
41.3%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Carroll County Public Schools
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Westminster High1,517 students
- 2Manchester Valley High1,359 students
- 3Century High1,120 students
- 4Winters Mill High1,116 students
- 5Liberty High991 students
- 6Francis Scott Key High944 students
- 7South Carroll High921 students
- 8Westminster West Middle875 students
- Enrollment+74.7%
- Teachers+36.8%
- Students per teacher+23.8%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−26.6%
Where this sits
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory