The top reported proficiency rate is 73% in English language arts. The lowest is 39% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on New Midway/woodsboro Elementary
New Midway/Woodsboro Elementary is a regular public school in Frederick County Public Schools, serving prekindergarten through fifth grade from a rural setting on Woodsboro Pike just south of the Keymar crossroads. The school is located in an unincorporated area of northern Frederick County, near the Carroll County line, in a landscape of rolling farmland and scattered residences. Keymar itself has no downtown, no public parks, no library, and minimal street life; the community is defined by agricultural preservation easements, county zoning, and a few historic structures along the state highway. Housing in the school’s ZIP code is valued above the national median and above the Maryland median, with home values seeing a modest year-over-year increase. For families already living in this part of the county, the school is the local elementary; for those considering a move here, it is worth noting that the surrounding area is quiet, rural, and stable, with little recent development.
The school enrolls a student body that is predominantly white, with a smaller share of Hispanic students and a very small number of Black students and students of two or more races. About two-fifths of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a rate that places this school in a middle economic band for the county. The grade band runs from prekindergarten through fifth grade, with a kindergarten class that is the largest single grade; enrollment overall is small enough that each grade typically has a couple of sections. The school does not serve middle or high school grades, so there are no state testing results above fifth grade and no graduation rate to report.
On the Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program, the school’s results show a mixed picture that a parent will want to examine grade by grade. In English language arts, third graders posted a strong proficiency rate, and fourth graders also performed well. Fifth grade ELA results are reported in a range that hovers just above the point where a single precise rate would be given. In math, the pattern is more uneven. Third grade math proficiency was solid, fourth grade dipped, and fifth grade math was lower still. Science, tested only in fifth grade using the Maryland Integrated Science Assessment, came in at a rate that is on the lower side. A single year of assessment data is all that is available here; there is no multi-year trend to show whether these results represent a typical year or an outlier. The school’s combined proficiency across all tested subjects and grades falls near the midpoint among Frederick County’s elementary schools, though with only one other district cohort member the comparison is essentially a single point of reference.
The district itself, Frederick County Public Schools, searched for recent changes that would matter to a parent such as redistricting, new school construction, curriculum shifts, or major budget moves, but no such changes were confirmed in available public reporting. That does not mean nothing has happened; it means nothing met the bar of a lasting, parent-facing change that was widely documented in the search.
In broad strokes, New Midway/Woodsboro Elementary is a small, community-rooted rural school with literacy results that look strong in the early grades and math results that soften by fifth grade. A parent whose child struggles with mathematics may want to explore how the school supports students in the upper elementary years. The setting is quiet and uncongested, home values are high but stable, and the school’s size is small enough that a family new to the area could get a direct feel for the building and staff without navigating a large, complex institution. The academic picture is not uniform, and that unevenness is the main thing a parent should follow up on with the school directly.
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