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Harford County Public Schools

Bel Air, Maryland · Public School District · Open

Key statistics

37,771
Students enrolled
55
Public schools
2,654
Classroom teachers (FTE)
14.2:1
Students per teacher

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data. School year: 2024-25.

Students

By grade

  • Pre-K 1,165
  • Kindergarten 2,528
  • Grade 1 2,651
  • Grade 2 2,818
  • Grade 3 2,911
  • Grade 4 2,837
  • Grade 5 2,908
  • Grade 6 2,686
  • Grade 7 2,840
  • Grade 8 2,874
  • Grade 9 3,115
  • Grade 10 2,880
  • Grade 11 2,826
  • Grade 12 2,732

By race/ethnicity

  • White 57%
  • Black or African American 21%
  • Hispanic/Latino 10%
  • Two or more races 8%
  • Asian 3%
  • American Indian or Alaska Native <1%
  • Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander <1%
  • Race not reported <1%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data (fall membership), school year 2024-25. Race/ethnicity as reported by the state.

Free and reduced-price lunch

39% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch 14,720 of 37,771 students in the district's schools
  • Free lunch 36%
  • Reduced-price lunch 3%

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, school year 2024-25. Eligibility as reported by the state. Schools that serve free meals to every student may count all of them as eligible, so figures are not comparable from state to state.

Spending and revenue

$17,479 spent per student on day-to-day operations Maryland median: $19,732 per student

Spending per student

  • Instruction $10,770
  • Support services $6,107
  • Other (food service, etc.) $602

Where the money comes from

  • Local 50%
  • State 42%
  • Federal 7%

Total revenue $823.0 milliontotal spending $797.8 million

Data source: National Center for Education Statistics, School District Finance Survey (F-33), school year 2023-24. Day-to-day spending is NCES's current expenditures: it leaves out construction, equipment, debt and payments to charter or private schools. Per student is per fall enrollment of that year.

District details

Grades served

PK to 12

Locale (NCES)

Suburb: MidsizeStudents: 83% suburb, 17% rural

Total staff (FTE)

5,457

District office

102 South Hickory Avenue, Bel Air MD 21014

County

Harford County

Official website

NCES District ID

2400390

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About Harford County Public Schools

Description provided by the district or community — not part of the NCES dataset.

The Harford County Public School (HCPS) System is dedicated to providing a quality instructional program to all students. The achievement of this goal is dependent on effective communication with our community. The HCPS web site is one of many tools we have instituted to achieve our communication goals. As a community, Harford County is fortunate to boast a cooperative relationship with the parents, local government, and the business community. These collaborative partnerships have the potential to serve our student population in ways that the school system cannot do alone....As you browse the content of this web site you will learn about system-wide programs and services and the individual schools within our system. The school profile format informs the public of the demographics related to each individual school. Understanding our schools allows parents and the community to best work in partnership with them in achieving success for all students. Through your interaction with the various elements of this web site you will obtain evidence of the successful performance of the HCPS System. Schools should satisfy a community’s reasonable expectation that they are performing in a manner that allows students to achieve academic success.In search for the desired excellence in our schools, the Board of Education of Harford County, the Office of the Superintendent, and all central curriculum and operations offices work together to focus on the needs of our schools. The updating of information on this web site will allow the public to stay current with the cyclical process of budget development, enrollment projections, school performance indicators, public meetings, and other topics of public interest
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