What Maryland School Districts Spend Per Student
The median Maryland school district spends $17,876 per student per year, $3,333 above the national median of $14,543, across all 24 districts the state reports. The 24 of them a ZIP code can reach are listed below, and their 881,064 students account for $15.6 billion of current spending in fiscal year 2022.
Maryland at a Glance
| Median district, per student | $17,876 |
|---|---|
| National median district | $14,543 |
| Districts listed | 24 of 24 |
| Students listed | 881,064 |
| Median district, math | 37% |
| Median district, reading | 48% |
Every Maryland District, by Enrollment
Spending is current spending divided by fall membership for fiscal year 2022. Proficiency and graduation rates are school year 2018-19, the last year before the pandemic interrupted state testing, so the money and the results are not from the same year. A figure marked ≈ is one the federal file published as a range rather than a value, so small groups of children stay unidentifiable; it is the middle of that range and within ten points of the real one. A dash means the federal files publish no value under that district's ID.
| District | Students | Per student | Math | Reading | Graduation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Montgomery County Public Schools | 158,231 | $18,101 | 48% | 55% | 89% |
| Prince George's County Public Schools | 128,770 | $19,234 | 19% | 33% | 79% |
| Baltimore County Public Schools | 111,136 | $16,538 | 31% | 39% | 88% |
| Anne Arundel County Public Schools | 83,163 | $16,620 | 41% | 50% | 88% |
| Baltimore City Public Schools | 77,807 | $18,272 | 16% | 21% | 70% |
| Howard County Public Schools | 57,325 | $17,971 | 56% | 60% | 93% |
| Frederick County Public Schools | 45,220 | $14,981 | 50% | 58% | 92% |
| Harford County Public Schools | 37,920 | $15,192 | 45% | 51% | 90% |
| Charles County Public Schools | 26,875 | $16,671 | 32% | 42% | 95% |
| Carroll County Public Schools | 25,054 | $15,757 | 57% | 63% | 95% |
| Washington County Public Schools | 22,171 | $15,838 | 38% | 50% | 91% |
| St. Marys County Public Schools | 17,480 | $16,038 | 46% | 50% | 94% |
| Calvert County Public Schools | 15,407 | $21,252 | 52% | 59% | 94% |
| Cecil County Public Schools | 14,780 | $17,169 | 36% | 45% | 93% |
| Wicomico County Public Schools | 14,664 | $17,780 | 34% | 39% | 81% |
| Allegany County Public Schools | 8,132 | $17,465 | 41% | 50% | 91% |
| Queen Annes County Public Schools | 7,440 | $30,681 | 52% | 61% | 96% |
| Worcester County Public Schools | 6,803 | $21,280 | 55% | 64% | 94% |
| Caroline County Public Schools | 5,551 | $18,641 | 35% | 43% | 88% |
| Dorchester County Public Schools | 4,573 | $24,096 | 24% | 35% | 85% |
| Talbot County Public Schools | 4,533 | $14,943 | 34% | 45% | 94% |
| Garrett County Public Schools | 3,502 | $27,740 | 33% | 43% | 92% |
| Somerset County Public Schools | 2,741 | $26,262 | 19% | 37% | ≈82% |
| Kent County Public Schools | 1,786 | $52,174 | 23% | 37% | ≈87% |
Sources
Spending and enrollment come from the NCES School District Finance Survey (F-33) for fiscal year 2022. Proficiency and graduation rates come from EDFacts for school year 2018-19. Districts are matched to ZIP codes through the NCES EDGE geographic relationship file. Nothing on this page is estimated or modelled: a figure is read from a federal source file or it is left blank.
Questions About Maryland School Spending
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