Patuxent Valley Middle School

Patuxent Valley Middle School

Public Middle School | Grade 6-8
9151 Vollmerhausen Rd,  Savage, MD
Howard County Public Schools
2.0
2.1
767 Students
B+
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School Details

Student Teacher Ratio
13:1
Math Proficiency
14%
Reading Proficiency
49%

Niche Grade

B+
Academics
B-
Teachers
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Academics
Reading Proficiency
49%
Math Proficiency
14%
Teachers
Student Teacher Ratio
13:1
Teachers
60
Full Time Teachers
60
Teachers in First or Second Year
2%

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Test Scores

Math
31.4%
State Average
31.2%
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The Test Score Rating reflects annual state test results for this school compared with scores statewide.

Teachers and Staff

Students Per Counselor
389:1

Student Diversity

Female
50.8%
Male
49.2%
Black
46%
Hispanic
20.6%
White
15.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander
12.3%
Two or more races
5.5%
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander
<1%
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Specialty School Programs

Free/Reduced Lunch Offered

This School’s Reviews

Niche Reviews
2.0 6 Reviews
1.0 Middle School Student
5/5/2022
Let me make this small. 1. Student Council members get trashed on a lot, don't seem to do much, and are ignored most of the time. 2. Bathrooms are awful. Doors are gone, locks don't work, disgusting-looking liquids in the sink, no toilet paper or soap. 3. Food and milk quality can be very unpredictable. (Burnt, Undercooked and sometimes soiled) 4. Some teachers are bad, sometimes because they favor one group or person over the other. 5. Students act terribly. 6. No discipline to those who act terribly. 7. Inside recess is terrible due to lights behind being turned off, food being thrown across the room and fights. 8. Fights every week.
4.0 Junior
4/26/2018
Patuxent is a very energetic environment filled with people of many different backgrounds. I've met some of my closest friends there and I still talk to them 6 years later. The teachers are very passionate about what they do and Patuxent prepares you for high school by giving you rigorous and helpful work to stretch your academic skills.
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2.1 16 Reviews
1.0 other
3/19/2025
My experience at Patuxent Valley Middle School was not okay. Bathroom doors were gone, there was writing on the walls, there was some blood in the bathroom floor after fights. Students don't respect each other and some of my teachers ended up leaving PVMS because they got treated unfairly.
1.0 parent
12/12/2023
Violence, and administrative and teaching incompetence will result in having your child come out of this school fully unprepared for high school. They welcomed my son as a higher achiever and now he lost interest in school and struggle to go to school every day. Reason - constant violence and in act...
1.0 other
8/19/2023
This school is a good school, however the students give this place a bad rep. My experience with this school was terrible. At least 80% of the students are very rude, extremely disruptive to the school community, and lack seriousness about their education, and only care about being "popular," (appar...
3.0 student
8/14/2023
My experience at pvms has been honestly pitiful so far. The worse part is that some students are genuinely wonderful people but the bad ones stick out so much and make the experience so terrible it’s hard to get by. With the very frequent physical and verbal fights going on left and right, vandaliza...

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