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Patuxent Valley Middle School

Jessup, MD 20794

Phone: (410) 880-5840
District: Howard County Public Schools

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public • Grades 6,7,8 • 811 students

Patuxent Valley Middle School, a public school located in Jessup, MD, serves grades 6-8 in the Howard County Public Schools.It has received a GreatSchools Rating of 6 out of 10, based on a variety of school quality measures.

Patuxent Valley Middle School is a public school located in Jessup, MD. 811 students attend Patuxent Valley Middle School.

School Ratings

Category	Rating	Details
Test Scores	6/10	The Test Score Rating examines how students at this school performed on standardized tests compared with other schools in the state. The Test Rating was created using 2025 Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program data from Maryland State Department of Education, and using 2025 Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program End-Of-Course data from Maryland State Department of Education.
Student Growth	6/10	The Student Progress Rating measures whether students at this school are making academic progress over time based on student growth data provided by the Department of Education. Specifically, this rating looks at how much progress individual students have made on state assessments during the past year or more, how this performance aligns with expected progress based on a student growth model established by the state Department of Education, and how this school's growth data compares to other schools in the state. The Growth Rating was created using 2025 Student Growth - Elementary Level data from Maryland State Department of Education, and using 2025 Student Growth - Middle Level data from Maryland State Department of Education.

Posted: March 24, 2026

The principal has 0 control over the school, the 2 female assistant admin do the best they can to try to get clarity and handle issues but.... Mr.Smart is "Mr.Community" yet he is pushy, rude, and pompeous when having to handle matters with him. They're is constant bullying and fights all the time, students who never had issues before middle school being dragged into altercations. There is a particularly nasty old verbally abusive teacher in 6th grade who speaks down to the kids and makes snide comments regularly. Other teachers ignore emails from parents and delay in grading so you never really understand if your child is missing work or not. Just be prepared for never ending list of issues if your child is going to attend this school. The principal will give you a huge false Impression at orientation and it will leave you so insanely disappointed after. This is also partly HCPSS's fault. They need to provide better security and security cameras for the school. They need to give the support that is so OBVIOUSLY needed yet they only seem to care about cutting positions and taking away from the schools. This school needs SECURITY and a change in leadership ASAP!!!!!

Posted: March 24, 2026

Posted: October 24, 2025

This school has been hell I feel like after the other principal left before we can the new one has been making school worse. "We do not do group punishments" they shall while we all get in trouble because of 2 or 3 dumb kids. Also some of the teachers are treated unfairly and deserve better. This school is trash and I cannot wait until I leave for high school soon.

Posted: October 24, 2025

Posted: July 27, 2025

My daughter attended this school and was a hard working, well behaved, cooperative student who was always very respectful to teachers. However teachers were absolutely terrible to her bullying and isolating her in class. Teachers were also very rude and nasty to my husband and I at I.E.P meetings by ignoring us not speaking to us not even looking at us and talking among themselves making disparaging remarks about our daughter insulting her and disrespecting her right in front of us as if we were not even there and not allowing us to say a word. The lying and gaslighting were infuriating. This is a BAD school.

Posted: July 27, 2025

Posted: July 19, 2025

There are furries in my school. If you don't know what that is its basically a HUMAN dressed or acts like an ANIMAL. They have ears, tails, paws, and barks or meows. This is a BIG DISTRACTION to people like me. I feel uncomfortable near them. One time I walked past this human cat and she was crawling on the floor with paws. I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS SCHOOL!!!!!:):):(:(

Posted: July 19, 2025

Posted: June 9, 2025

This school has good teachers and staff but manly a good chunk of students cause fights and are distractions.

Posted: March 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.

Posted: March 19, 2025

Posted: December 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 action by the school leadership. My son is a current student and he has been there from 6 grade. I can't wait to get him out of there.

Posted: December 12, 2023

Posted: August 18, 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," (apparently in order to become "popular" you have to argue w/ teachers for no reason, get into physical or verbal fights with other student over the most vaguest reasons, lack decorum and sensibility, while also failing school miserably). Some teachers, administrators/other staff treat the students poorly, but the rest are good people. There are frequent fights between students, which staff fail to control most of the time. The food is regularly overcooked or under cooked, and the portions given aren't enough (some students get way more food, while others get way less). The school accumulates a lot of dirt/trash because of the students normalizing littering, which sometimes gets out of hand (especially in the classroom desks and the bathrooms). Whatever you do, I do not recommend letting your kid come to this school.

Posted: August 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 its hard to get by. With the very frequent physical and verbal fights going on left and right, vandalization of the building, and hostility from everyone (students, teachers, administration); there doesnt seem to be a safe place to confide in the school. Whilst there are SO many opportunities to succeed and be amazing, most students cant take advantage of it and instead choose to create a horrible pvms. I want to love this school but i cant because the intensity of the bad challenges the good.

Posted: August 14, 2023

Posted: August 7, 2023

The school is good overall but there are a lot of fights but other than that its great

Posted: August 7, 2023

Posted: June 5, 2023

Staff are very unprofessional. They try to hide the racism of the students from the parents who don't even get phone calls about the harassment their children are facing.

Posted: June 5, 2023

Posted: May 8, 2023

Too many fights

Great teachers and administrators

Posted: May 8, 2023

Posted: November 6, 2022

So unsanitary! My kid got 3 different illnesses at Patuxent. She also says there are fights and homophobia. There was no academic support from teachers or counseling. The food gave my son food poisoning and the school didn't give enough food to begin with. Their muffins are greasy and they always buy the dollar baned version of food. Get a grip.

Posted: November 6, 2022

Posted: May 5, 2022

The bathrooms are absolutely awful. Especially the boy's bathroom. One of the doors is missing, another has a lock that won't even work, and there's no soap and toilet paper on most days. The sinks are always dirty and filled with gross liquids that I don't even want to describe.

There are fights almost every day, the food is burnt or undercooked, and the students are just awful people.
Some teachers are bad. I also sometimes feel like the student council does nothing to improve the quality of being in that school.

Lunch is especially full of chaos as food sometimes gets thrown across the room, lights get turned off, the lunch lines are very unorganized, and people create a fighting ring. Also, a lack of discipline for those who actually do deserve it.

Posted: May 5, 2022

Posted: March 16, 2022

This school is so unsanitary, there was a bat in the science class room DRAIN. And the halls are so dirty if someone fell on it there face would be covered in dirt. Also covid protections are very low like they do not sanitize at all.

Posted: March 16, 2022

Posted: June 18, 2019

Not sure why the ratings are so low - my kids are excelling at PVMS. The teachers and administration have been terrific.