Regular local school district · Dorchester County
Dorchester County Public Schools, MD: schools, enrollment and spending
Dorchester County Public Schools runs 13 public schools with 4,586 students in grades PK to 12. Its ratio of 13.1 students per teacher is 1.5 lower than the Maryland figure of 14.6.
At a glance
- Schools
- 13
- Students
- 4,586
- Teachers (FTE)
- 351
- Students per teacher
- 13.1
- MD: 14.6 · US: 15.3
- Address
- 700 Glasgow Street, Cambridge, MD 21613
- Phone
- (410)228-4747
- County
- Dorchester County
- Locale
- Rural: Distant
- Grades offered
- PK to 12
- Agency type
- Regular local school district
- NCES district ID
- 2400300
- State district ID
- MD-09
- Total staff (FTE)
- 850
- School counselors (FTE)
- 24.0About 191 students per counselor.
- School administrators (FTE)
- 32.0
Students per teacher compared
This district13.1
Maryland14.6
United States15.3
2020 finance data
From the F-33 School District Finance Survey for fiscal year 2020, in nominal dollars. Enrollment used for per-pupil figures is the finance survey count (4,662), which can differ from 2024-25 enrollment.
- Total revenue
- $92.3 million
- Federal revenue
- $11.3 million
- State revenue
- $58.2 million
- Local revenue
- $22.9 million
- Total spending
- $88.6 million
- Spending per pupil
- $19,001
- Salaries
- $41.6 million46.9% of total spending.
- Long-term debt (end of year)
- $15.6 million
Where revenue came from
- Federal: 12.2%
- State: 63.0%
- Local: 24.8%
Maryland overall
- Federal: 7.0%
- State: 43.0%
- Local: 50.0%
Spending per pupil compared
This district$19,001
Maryland$18,655
United States$16,826
Schools in Dorchester County Public Schools
By level: 3 high, 2 middle, 8 elementary. A CEP school serves free meals to all students.
| Cambridge-South Dorchester High SchoolCEP school | High | 9 to 12 | 811 | 16.9 |
| Choptank Elementary SchoolCEP school | Elementary | PK to 5 | 319 | 11.8 |
| Dorchester County Career and Technology Center | High | 9 to 12 | 0 | |
| Hurlock Elementary SchoolCEP school | Elementary | PK to 5 | 391 | 13.5 |
| Judith P. Hoyer Early Childhood Center | Elementary | PK to 5 | 0 | |
| Mace's Lane Middle SchoolCEP school | Middle | 6 to 8 | 490 | 12.2 |
| Maple Elementary SchoolCEP school | Elementary | PK to 5 | 483 | 14.6 |
| North Dorchester High SchoolCEP school | High | 9 to 12 | 526 | 15.0 |
| North Dorchester Middle SchoolCEP school | Middle | 6 to 8 | 414 | 13.8 |
| Sandy Hill ElementaryCEP school | Elementary | PK to 5 | 393 | 11.9 |
| South Dorchester SchoolCEP school | Elementary | PK to 8 | 230 | 14.4 |
| Vienna Elementary SchoolCEP school | Elementary | PK to 5 | 183 | 12.2 |
| Warwick Elementary SchoolCEP school | Elementary | PK to 5 | 346 | 15.0 |
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Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Finance figures are 2020 finance data in nominal dollars, not adjusted for inflation. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.