About Carroll County Public Schools
Carroll County Public Schools is a public school system serving Carroll County, Maryland, based in Westminster. It serves 26,141 students across 44 schools spanning PreK–12, and is classified as a town: fringe district. By enrollment it is the #10 largest of Maryland’s 25 school systems.
Size and structure
Carroll County Public Schools enrolls 26,141 students in 44 schools — an average of about 594 students per school. It serves grades PreK–12 and ranks #10 of 25 statewide by enrollment.
Who the district serves
Student race and ethnicity in Carroll County Public Schools, from the NCES Common Core of Data (26,141 students reported):
For economically-disadvantaged, English-learner, and special-education shares, plus school-by-school detail, see the federal sources in the full-data section.
Teachers & staff
Carroll County Public Schools employs about 1,792 full-time-equivalent teachers for a student–teacher ratio of 14.6:1 — above the Maryland average of about 14.1:1. Total district staff is roughly 3,384.
Counselor and librarian/media counts are not published at the district level in the current NCES release; see the federal full-data links for staffing detail.
How Maryland funds schools
District-level per-pupil spending and the local/state/federal revenue split for Carroll County Public Schools are published in the federal school-finance files — see the full-data links below for the current figures.
Report card & state results
The Maryland School Report Card rates each school on a 1-to-5 star scale across academic achievement, academic progress, English-language progress and school quality and student success (plus graduation for high schools). Look up Carroll County Public Schools on the Maryland School Report Card.
Accreditation status
Maryland does not run a single statewide accreditation mandate for public districts; accreditation is voluntary, pursued mainly through the Middle States Association and in some cases Cognia. Look up Carroll County Public Schools in the free Cognia registry.
Carroll County Public Schools vs. Maryland
See every Maryland district side by side in the Maryland directory.
Look up Carroll County Public Schools’s full data
These official sources carry the district-level detail — finances, discipline, equity, test scores, boundaries. Direct links for this district (via its NCES ID):