In Maryland, 19.0% of Black students are proficient in math at the typical school — against 43.6% of White students. Within Prince George’s County alone, the gap between the best and worst schools for Black children is 86 points. This tool helps you find the right one.
Search Maryland schools ›Share of students meeting proficient at the typical Maryland school. Groups are shown wherever Maryland reports them; a group is omitted from a school when too few students were tested to report safely.
These figures come from MCAP 2025, measuring proficient in ELA & Math · Grades 3–8. Across 24 districts, 868 Maryland schools report enough results to be included.
At the typical Maryland school the picture is black students at 28.8%, hispanic students at 27.1%, white students at 54.2% and asian students at 62.3%. That is a 35.2-point spread between the highest and lowest group, inside the same schools, the same districts and the same state — which is what this tool exists to make visible.
Across 376 Black student results — the strongest result in the state at real scale. Heather Hills Elementary, in the same county, reaches 87.1% across 302. Both sit inside a district where the average school is far lower.
Glenarden Woods reaches 91.2%. Bradbury Heights Elementary, in the same district, sits at 5.2%. Across 150 schools in one county, a child's address decides which end they land on.
Against 44.0% of White students. Maryland does not publish school-level results by race — these figures come from records requests filed by the Education Data Center.
These are the schools where Black students most often meet proficient, among those with at least 25 Black student results reported. Every group's result is shown alongside, because a school that serves one group well and another poorly is telling you something too.
| School | All | Black | Hispanic | White | Asian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glenarden Woods ElementaryPrince George's Magnet | 91.5% | 91.2% | 86.2% | 95.5% | 93.1% |
| Heather Hills ElementaryPrince George's Magnet | 83.2% | 87.1% | — | 92.7% | — |
| Pointers Run ElementaryHoward | 78.6% | 67% | 54.2% | 79.9% | 86.7% |
| Cromwell Valley Elementary Regional MagnetBaltimore County Magnet | 71.2% | 66.7% | — | 77% | — |
| Lucy V. Barnsley ElementaryMontgomery Magnet | 63.9% | 65.7% | 41.2% | 82.6% | 67.9% |
| Dr. Charles R. Drew ElementaryMontgomery Magnet | 60.4% | 65.2% | 45.8% | — | 63.6% |
| Chapel Hill ElementaryBaltimore County | 78.7% | 65.1% | 90% | 81.1% | 85.5% |
| Wilson Wims Elementary SchoolMontgomery | 77.6% | 64.9% | 42.9% | 69.6% | 88.7% |
| Windsor Knolls MiddleFrederick | 61.2% | 64.6% | 40.7% | 61.4% | 77.8% |
| Windy Hill ElementaryCalvert | 62.6% | 64.3% | 54.3% | 62.5% | — |
Flags show magnet, charter, alternative and virtual schools. Some campuses — early college and specialized academies among them — also admit by application, and this page cannot yet identify all of them. Check with the district before assuming a school is open to your address.
The same measure at the other end of the range. In many of these schools every group is falling short, which points at the school rather than at the students in it.
| School | All | Black | Hispanic | White | Asian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dr. Bernard Harris, Sr., ElementaryBaltimore City | 2.5% | 2.5% | — | — | — |
| Johnston Square ElementaryBaltimore City | 3% | 2.6% | — | — | — |
| Crossroads CenterBaltimore County Alt | 3.4% | 3.8% | — | 0% | — |
| Sandtown-Winchester Achievement AcademyBaltimore City | 4.4% | 4% | — | — | — |
| General John Stricker MiddleBaltimore County | 10.9% | 4.2% | 9.5% | 16.4% | — |
| Center for Educational OpportunityHarford AltVirtual | 10.4% | 4.9% | — | 13.9% | — |
| Bradbury Heights ElementaryPrince George's | 7.7% | 5.2% | 12.5% | — | — |
| Frederick ElementaryBaltimore City Charter | 4.3% | 5.4% | 0% | — | — |
| ConneXions: A Community Based Arts SchoolBaltimore City Charter | 6.1% | 5.4% | — | — | — |
| Katherine Johnson Global AcademyBaltimore City | 6.2% | 5.5% | 7.5% | — | — |
In Prince George's, Glenarden Woods Elementary reports 91.2% of Black students meeting the standard. Bradbury Heights Elementary, in the same district, reports 5.2%. That is a 86-point spread across 150 schools under one administration, serving one community, funded by one tax base — the clearest illustration of why address matters more than it should.
Districts with at least ten schools reporting Black student results, by school count. The percentage shown is the average across that district's schools for Black students.