Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8
John T. Baker Middle School, Damascus, MD
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 841
- Teachers (FTE)
- 57.0
- Students per teacher
- 14.8
- Grades
- 6 to 8
This school's ratio is 1.0 higher than the district figure of 13.8. 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
- 25400 Oak Dr, Damascus, MD 20872
- Phone
- (240)207-2440
- District
- Montgomery County Public Schools
- County
- Montgomery County
- Level
- Middle
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Locale
- Rural: Fringe
- NCES school ID
- 240048001456
School meals
- Free lunch
- 259
- Reduced-price lunch
- 53
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 31237.1% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 245Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
- Community Eligibility Provision
- No
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 Montgomery County Public Schools
- Julius West Middle 1,365 students
- Thomas W. Pyle Middle 1,259 students
- North Bethesda Middle 1,224 students
- Parkland Middle 1,185 students
- Takoma Park Middle 1,177 students
- Tilden Middle 1,112 students
- Earle B. Wood Middle 1,019 students
- Silver Spring International Middle 1,015 students
- Rocky Hill Middle 1,010 students
- Lakelands Park Middle 993 students
- Cabin John Middle 983 students
- A. Mario Loiederman Middle 978 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.