Just over 24,000 students were enrolled in the county's public schools for the 2022-2023 academic year.
[2][3] The school system includes all of Carroll County, Maryland.
McCabe was appointed to a four-year term as Superintendent of Carroll County Public Schools effective July 1, 2022.
[4] In 2022, the school board announced in the April meeting that pride flags would not be permitted to be “flown, posted, or affixed to the grounds, walls, doors, ceilings or any other Board of Education property," after a donation of flags from the local chapter of PFLAG were raised in classrooms.
[citation needed] As of July 2023, the members are President Marsha Herbert, Vice President Tara A. Battaglia, Patricia S. Dorsey, Donna M. Sivigny, and Stephen D. Whisler.