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How Esperanza Middle compares
62% vs. 54% district avg
8 points above St. Mary's County Public Schools
62% vs. 49% Maryland avg
13 points above state average
875
Enrollment
16.8:1
Student:Teacher
62%
Proficiency Rate
41%
Free/Reduced Lunch

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About This School

Esperanza Middle is a middle school located in Lexington Park, Maryland. The school serves 875 students in grades 6-8. The student-to-teacher ratio is 16.8:1.

According to EDFacts assessment data, 62% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading.

41% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.

Esperanza Middle is part of the St. Mary's County Public Schools in Maryland. The school receives Title I federal funding.

How This School Compares

Esperanza Middle has 875 students enrolled, making it larger than the average school in St. Mary's County Public Schools (673 students). Its 62% proficiency rate is 8 percentage points above the district average of 54%. Compared to the Maryland state average of 49%, the school performs 13 points higher.

Frequently Asked Questions

Esperanza Middle has 875 students enrolled in grades 6-8. The student-to-teacher ratio is 16.8:1.

According to EDFacts data, 62% of students at Esperanza Middle meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.

Esperanza Middle is part of the St. Mary's County Public Schools in Lexington Park, Maryland. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.

All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.

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School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.

For this entity, the underlying data on this page comes from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. The breakdown above is the federal record; the paragraphs below add the per-entity context that makes the headline numbers usable for a real decision rather than just a data lookup.

The methodology behind every numeric value on this page is publicly documented on the NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts portal and described in detail on this site’s methodology page. Refresh cadence varies by underlying series; the page surfaces the as-of date for each number so readers can trace any figure back to the source release.

Practical use of this page is in combination with the comparison and ranking pages elsewhere on the site, which surface the same data for this entity’s peers within U.S. public schools and districts. A single-entity reading without peer context can be misleading when an entity is an outlier on one axis but typical on another.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.