Jessup, MD schools
Jessup’s public schools score above Maryland’s averages: 37% of students are proficient in reading against 35.5% statewide, and 89% of high schoolers graduate on time against 86.7%. Kids attend one of 44 elementary schools through grade 5, then one of 43 elementary schools, one of 20 middle schools and one of 13 high schools.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
Jessup’s School Grade: B+
The public schools Jessup’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 72% 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 Jessup kids go to school
Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
Above the state in reading
89% graduate on time
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years.
Two districts serve Jessup
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Colleges near Jessup
There’s no college in Jessup, but 40 colleges are within 30 miles. The closest is Lincoln College of Technology-Columbia in Columbia, 3.7 miles away.
30 more within 30 miles.
Straight-line distance from the center of Jessup. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus. Colleges marked › have their own page; the others are too small or don’t report enough to the Department of Education for one.
All 1 school in Jessup
School data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.
Schools Jessup kids attend in other towns
Public schools in Jessup’s district that are located in Ellicott City, Hanover, Fulton, Clarksville, Elkridge, Jessup and Laurel. Which one depends on your address.