Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8
Harpers Choice Middle, Columbia, MD
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 471
- Teachers (FTE)
- 40.0
- Students per teacher
- 11.8
- Grades
- 6 to 8
This school's ratio is 1.7 lower than the district figure of 13.5. The Maryland average across schools is 14.6. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
School details
- Address
- 5450 Beaverkill Rd, Columbia, MD 21044
- Phone
- (410)313-6929
- District
- Howard County Public Schools
- County
- Howard County
- Level
- Middle
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- City: Midsize
- NCES school ID
- 240042000737
School meals
- Free lunch
- 206
- Reduced-price lunch
- 15
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 22146.9% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 180Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
- Community Eligibility Provision
- Yes (CEP school)
Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.
Related schools
Other middle schools in Howard County Public Schools
- Mount View Middle 881 students
- Patuxent Valley Middle 840 students
- Burleigh Manor Middle 777 students
- Thomas Viaduct Middle 758 students
- Bonnie Branch Middle 739 students
- Mayfield Woods Middle 731 students
- Ellicott Mills Middle 698 students
- Elkridge Landing Middle 686 students
- Folly Quarter Middle 682 students
- Clarksville Middle 679 students
- Lime Kiln Middle 675 students
- Patapsco Middle 670 students
We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.