Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8
Milton M. Somers Middle School, La Plata, MD
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 671
- Teachers (FTE)
- 49.0
- Students per teacher
- 13.7
- Grades
- 6 to 8
This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 14.4. 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
- 300 Willow Lane, La Plata, MD 20646
- Phone
- (301)934-4663
- District
- Charles County Public Schools
- County
- Charles County
- Level
- Middle
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Town: Fringe
- NCES school ID
- 240027000601
School meals
- Free lunch
- 233
- Reduced-price lunch
- 57
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 29043.2% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 185Students 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 Charles County Public Schools
- Theodore G. Davis Middle School 999 students
- Benjamin Stoddert Middle School 920 students
- Mattawoman Middle School 862 students
- John Hanson Middle School 727 students
- Matthew Henson Middle School 701 students
- Piccowaxen Middle School 578 students
- General Smallwood Middle School 500 students
- Phoenix International School of the Arts 243 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.