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Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8

North Dorchester Middle School, Hurlock, MD

CEP schoolNorth Dorchester Middle School is a public middle school in Hurlock, part of Dorchester County Public Schools. It enrolled 414 students in 2024-25, with 13.8 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
414
Teachers (FTE)
30.0
Students per teacher
13.8
Grades
6 to 8

This school's ratio is 0.7 higher than the district figure of 13.1. The Maryland average across schools is 14.6. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school13.8
District13.1
Maryland14.6
United States15.3

School details

Address
5745 Cloverdale Road, Hurlock, MD 21643
Phone
(410)943-3322
District
Dorchester County Public Schools
County
Dorchester County
Level
Middle
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
Rural: Distant
NCES school ID
240030000619
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
231
Reduced-price lunch
29
Free or reduced-price lunch
26062.8% of enrollment.
Direct certification
253Students 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 Dorchester County Public Schools

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.