Maryland School Systems Spending & Outcomes — 25 Systems

Explore Maryland's 24 county school systems — Baltimore City and Baltimore County are separate — and the State-operated SEED School of Maryland, with original Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE), Maryland SDAT and NCES sources. Directory identities are from NCES 2023–24, not a current operating-status certification. Maryland school systems levy no tax and hold no budget vote: the county appropriates to its school system, so each page shows MSDE's fiscal-2025 local appropriation (Selected Financial Data Table 12, in dollars and as a share of the assessable base) beside the county's general real property tax rate from SDAT, labelled as the county's, never as a school tax. Students, outcomes, attendance and staffing come from the Maryland Report Card downloads: September 30 enrollment for 2022–23 to 2025–26, 2025–26 special-services shares (Economically Disadvantaged is MSDE's own measure and is shown for 2025–26 only; free and reduced-price meal eligibility is withheld because Baltimore City's figure reflects community eligibility), MCAP results for spring 2023 to 2026, four-year graduation for the classes of 2023 to 2025, 2024–25 attendance, chronic absence, mobility, AP, SAT and ACT results of 2025 graduates, completer requirements and the 2025 school survey. MSDE prints a rate at or above 95% or at or below 5% only as that band, even for a whole school system; such a rate is shown as the band, never as a number. Finance is MSDE's Selected Financial Data for fiscal year 2025 — revenue by source (Table 2 includes and Table 3 excludes the teachers' retirement the State pays), State aid by programme, spending by category and object — and its ten-year series. Salaries are MSDE's Analysis of Professional Salaries, October 2025: mean, median and quartiles by position, including the superintendent, whose row is one position's salary. Staff counts come from the Report Card staff file, which names individuals; only counts by position are shown. Suspensions are 2024–25 incidents by school; payments of $25,000 or more are the school systems' Education Article §5-115 disclosures, totalled per year. Withheld figures do not mean zero.

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