Cumberland, MD schools
Cumberland’s public schools score well below Maryland’s averages: 30% of students are proficient in reading against 35.5% statewide, and 92% of high schoolers graduate on time against 86.7%. Kids attend South Penn Elementary or West Side Elementary or John Humbird Elementary through grade 5, then Washington Middle or Braddock Middle and Allegany High or Fort Hill High.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
Cumberland’s School Grade: C+
The public schools Cumberland’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 64% of Maryland’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they sit near the middle.
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Maryland’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of Maryland only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
- Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in Maryland with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
Where Cumberland kids go to school
Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
Well below the state in reading
92% graduate on time
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years. #42 of 258 MD towns →
The district serving Cumberland
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Cumberland is home to Allegany College of Maryland
More about Allegany College of Maryland →All 10 schools in Cumberland
School data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.