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School Finder

Narrow the federal record to the schools that match what you care about, then open any profile for the full picture. Filters run on NCES Common Core of Data; nothing leaves your browser beyond the search itself.

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How the School Finder works

Each filter maps directly to a field in the federal record, so a search is a precise query against the NCES Common Core of Data rather than an opinion ranking. Three things are worth knowing before you read the results:

  • Student-teacher ratio is enrollment divided by full-time-equivalent teachers, a staffing- intensity measure, not a direct count of students per classroom (it includes specialists and pull-out staff). The national median runs around 15 to 16 students per teacher, so a 12:1 filter surfaces the more generously staffed end of the distribution and a 25:1 filter is closer to the typical urban high school.
  • Free-lunch share is the proportion of students whose household income qualifies them for free meals, the standard proxy for economic need that federal Title I funding tracks; the national figure is near half of all public-school students, so a 75%-plus band isolates high-need campuses.
  • School type (charter, magnet, Title I) comes straight from the federal classification, not an editorial label.

The finder searches only schools that report staff data to NCES, so closed or stub listings are excluded, and it returns the largest matching schools first. A match is a starting point rather than a verdict: these figures describe the resources a school reports, not test scores or academic outcomes. Open any profile for the full context, and see our methodology for how every field is sourced, computed, and dated.

Top 100 of many matching schools

Many schools match. Showing the 100 largest. Add a state or tighter filters to narrow the list.

School Enrollment
Montgomery Blair High Silver Spring, MD 3,266
Walter Johnson High Bethesda, MD 3,016
High Point High Beltsville, MD 3,012
Wheaton High Silver Spring, MD 2,794
Charles Herbert Flowers High Springdale, MD 2,712
Parkdale High Riverdale, MD 2,588
Bowie High Bowie, MD 2,580
Eleanor Roosevelt High Greenbelt, MD 2,544
Duval High Lanham, MD 2,522
Gaithersburg High Gaithersburg, MD 2,441
Seneca Valley High Germantown, MD 2,409
Northwestern High Hyattsville, MD 2,396
Bethesda-Chevy Chase High Bethesda, MD 2,377
Richard Montgomery High Rockville, MD 2,366
Northwest High Germantown, MD 2,300
Dr. Henry a. Wise Jr. High Upper Marlboro, MD 2,291
Clarksburg High Clarksburg, MD 2,241
Glen Burnie High Glen Burnie, MD 2,226
Winston Churchill High Potomac, MD 2,185
North County High Glen Burnie, MD 2,161
Broadneck High Annapolis, MD 2,143
Laurel High Laurel, MD 2,129
Leonardtown High Leonardtown, MD 2,118
Bladensburg High Bladensburg, MD 2,114
Quince Orchard High Gaithersburg, MD 2,100
Dundalk High Baltimore, MD 2,087
Annapolis High Annapolis, MD 2,075
Gov. Thomas Johnson High Frederick, MD 2,066
Walt Whitman High Bethesda, MD 2,056
Meade High Ft Meade, MD 2,045
Paint Branch High Burtonsville, MD 2,038
Perry Hall High Baltimore, MD 2,012
Albert Einstein High Kensington, MD 1,991
Urbana High Ijamsville, MD 1,989
North Point High School Waldorf, MD 1,960
James Hubert Blake High Silver Spring, MD 1,960
Woodlawn High Baltimore, MD 1,922
Crofton High School Gambrills, MD 1,906
Kenwood High Baltimore, MD 1,900
Dulaney High Timonium, MD 1,889
John F. Kennedy High Silver Spring, MD 1,880
Parkville High Baltimore, MD 1,877
Thomas S. Wootton High Rockville, MD 1,870
Suitland High Suitland, MD 1,847
Severna Park High Severna Park, MD 1,842
Springbrook High Silver Spring, MD 1,838
Old Mill High Millersville, MD 1,832
Frederick High Frederick, MD 1,821
Arundel High Gambrills, MD 1,778
Marriotts Ridge High Marriottsville, MD 1,741
Catonsville High Baltimore, MD 1,735
Tuscarora High Frederick, MD 1,735
Mergenthaler Vocational-Technical High Baltimore, MD 1,714
Oakdale High Ijamsville, MD 1,702
Great Mills High Great Mills, MD 1,697
South Hagerstown High Hagerstown, MD 1,690
Chesapeake Math and It Public Charter Laurel, MD 1,681
South River High Edgewater, MD 1,680
Sherwood High Sandy Spring, MD 1,675
Col. Zadok Magruder High Rockville, MD 1,671
Northwood High Silver Spring, MD 1,654
Linganore High Frederick, MD 1,647
Baltimore Polytechnic Institute Baltimore, MD 1,632
St. Charles High School Waldorf, MD 1,617
Reservoir High Fulton, MD 1,597
North Hagerstown High Hagerstown, MD 1,583
Perry Hall Middle Baltimore, MD 1,582
Watkins Mill High Gaithersburg, MD 1,577
Oxon Hill High Oxon Hill, MD 1,562
Towson High Towson, MD 1,558
Rockville High Rockville, MD 1,550
Chesapeake High Pasadena, MD 1,540
Atholton High Columbia, MD 1,540
Chopticon High Morganza, MD 1,526
Chesapeake Math and It South Public Charter Upper Marlboro, MD 1,503
Howard High Ellicott City, MD 1,493
Franklin High Reisterstown, MD 1,481
Northern High Owings, MD 1,478
Westminster High Westminster, MD 1,477
Overlea High Baltimore, MD 1,474
James M. Bennett High Salisbury, MD 1,474
Milford Mill Academy Baltimore, MD 1,471
Baltimore City College Baltimore, MD 1,470
Stephen Decatur High Berlin, MD 1,462
Mount Hebron High Ellicott City, MD 1,455
Accokeek Academy Accokeek, MD 1,445
Edgewood High Edgewood, MD 1,440
New Town High Owings Mills, MD 1,414
Oakland Mills High Columbia, MD 1,413
Kipp Harmony Academy Baltimore, MD 1,399
Aberdeen High Aberdeen, MD 1,396
Damascus High Damascus, MD 1,390
Northeast High Pasadena, MD 1,387
Severna Park Middle Severna Park, MD 1,386
Patapsco High and Center for Arts Baltimore, MD 1,385
River Hill High Clarksville, MD 1,383
Centennial High Ellicott City, MD 1,377
Roland Park Elementary/Middle Baltimore, MD 1,371
Julius West Middle Rockville, MD 1,365
Glenelg High Glenelg, MD 1,363

Source: NCES Common Core of Data Public School Universe + Civil Rights Data Collection · 2024-25