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If you could change one rule at Barstow Elementary, what would it be?
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Enrollment
630
Elementary
DISTRICT 541 · STATE 481
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CALVERT COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240015001655
Barstow Elementary
295 Williams Rd, Prince Frederick, MD 20678 · (443) 550-9510 · Calvert County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL630 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 84% of Maryland public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Maryland public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.8:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.7:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
41%
259 students
DISTRICT 35% · STATE 54%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 20 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 87 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 93 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 101 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 95 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 107 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 127 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (87) is 31% smaller than its 5th grade class (127).
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 54% · STATE 73% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
MCAP 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 3-4)English Language Arts
59.8%
MD avg 50.6% . -14.6pp since 2023
Math
57.0%
MD avg 34.8% . -0.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 60 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 57 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Maryland schools, those numbers are about 51 and 35. Reading and writing scores are down about 15 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 59.8% | 57.0% |
| 2023-24 | 74.4% | 57.4% |
% Proficient (Levels 3-4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: MCAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
62.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.9%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+12.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 62% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% typical for Maryland schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Maryland's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Barstow Elementary
Barstow Elementary's state test result (62.1% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barstow Elementary this school | 630 | 41.1% | 62.1% |
| Meadowvale Elementary Havre De Grace | 552 | 41.7% | 39.2% |
| Walter J. Mitchell Elementary School La Plata | 663 | 36.3% | 49.6% |
| William Winchester Elementary Westminster | 587 | 40.0% | 63.5% |
| Thomas Johnson Elementary/Middle Baltimore | 532 | 40.4% | 61.2% |
| Cranberry Station Elementary Westminster | 593 | 44.4% | 53.3% |
Matched among Maryland elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Barstow Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Calvert County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 62.1% | #191 of 853 | #8 of 12 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 57.0% | #220 of 853 ▼ 18 | #6 of 12 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 59.8% | #295 of 853 ▼ 208 | #10 of 12 ▼ 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 630 | #173 of 898 | #3 of 12 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.8:1 | #678 of 857 | #10 of 12 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.4% | #320 of 857 | #1 of 12 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 41.1% | #606 of 885 | #4 of 12 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +10.1% | #132 of 294 | N/A |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
630
+25 (+4%) vs 2020
+15% since 2010-11, when it was 547
Student : Teacher
15.8:1
was 17.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 630 | 39.9 | 15.8:1 | 41% (259) |
| 2023-24 | 649 | 41.9 | 15.5:1 | 40% (257) |
| 2022-23 | 687 | 37.4 | 18.4:1 | 38% (259) |
| 2020-21 | 605 | 35 | 17.3:1 | 27% (162) |
| 2017-18 | 572 | 37.1 | 15.4:1 | 31% (179) |
| 2015-16 | 598 | 37 | 16.2:1 | 39% (233) |
| 2010-11 | 547 | 36 | 15.2:1 | 40% (217) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Barstow Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 10% (572 to 630); teachers up 8% (37.1 to 39.9).
About Barstow Elementary
Barstow Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school based in Prince Frederick, Maryland. Its grade span covers pre-K through 5, with 630 students on the rolls. That compares with an average of about 481 students for elementary schools in Maryland.
Calvert County Public Schools oversees Barstow Elementary and 23 other schools, with 14,849 students in total.
At Barstow Elementary, 55% of students are White. Smaller groups are 17% Black, 13% Hispanic, and 13% multiracial. For comparison, the population of Calvert County is roughly 75% White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Barstow Elementary scores 63%.
There are 39.9 full-time-equivalent teachers at Barstow Elementary, giving a ratio of 15.8:1. Elementary schools in Maryland have an average ratio of 13.8:1. By family income, 41% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. On average, public schools in Calvert County report 32%.
Among Maryland public elementary schools, Barstow Elementary outscored 84%, which works out to an A- on the allk12 Grade.
Barstow Elementary posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 62.1%, compared with a predicted 49.9%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Maryland schools on BeatsExpectations.
In the surrounding county, Calvert County, the median household earns about $133,922 a year, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 2% of people live in poverty. Calvert County has 25 public schools with about 14,849 students, including Barstow Elementary.
The closest school to Barstow Elementary is Calvert Middle, located about 1.6 miles away. Barstow Elementary is one of several public schools in the area, with 7 others within five miles. Barstow Elementary's average proficiency of 62.1% compares with 51.2% for its nearest scored neighbors.
By NCES locale, the school is Rural: Distant, or in rural territory some distance from an urban area.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 630, up from 605 in 2020-21. Students per teacher dropped from 17.3 in 2020-21 to 15.8 in 2024-25.
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Calvert County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
94,313
Census ACS
Median income
$133,922
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
37%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
2%
Below federal line
Schools in county
25
14,849 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Calvert County Public Schools
- Northern HighHigh · 1,478 students
- Huntingtown High SchoolHigh · 1,311 students
- Calvert HighHigh · 1,080 students
- Patuxent HighHigh · 928 students
- Northern MiddleMiddle · 745 students
- Windy Hill MiddleMiddle · 669 students
Other schools in Prince Frederick
- Calvert HighHigh · 1,080 students
- Calvert MiddleMiddle · 607 students
- Calvert ElementaryElementary · 495 students
- Calvert Country SchoolCombined · 40 students
- Calvert County Alternative SchoolHigh · 7 students
- Career and Technology AcademyHigh
Nearby schools
- Calvert Middle1.6 mi · 607
- Calvert High1.7 mi · 1,080
- Calvert County Alternative School1.8 mi · 7
- Calvert Country School2.2 mi · 40
- Calvert Elementary2.4 mi · 495
- Plum Point Elementary4.0 mi · 568
Frequently asked questions
About Barstow ElementaryHow many students attend Barstow Elementary?
Barstow Elementary enrolls approximately 630 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Barstow Elementary serve?
Barstow Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Barstow Elementary?
Approximately 15.8:1 students per teacher at Barstow Elementary.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Barstow Elementary?
At Barstow Elementary, the student body is approximately 55% White, 13% Hispanic, 17% Black, 2% Asian, 13% Two or more.
What district is Barstow Elementary in?
Barstow Elementary is part of Calvert County Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.