Beach Elementary

Located at 7900 Old Bayside Rd, in Chesapeake Beach, Maryland, Beach Elementary is a medium-sized elementary campus that hosts 502 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under Calvert County Public Schools.

Calvert County Public Schools runs 24 schools in total, collectively educating 14,849 students. Beach Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Beach Elementary records that 61% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 16% Black, 14% multiracial, 8% Hispanic. By comparison, Calvert County as a whole is about 75% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 24% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Calvert County's rate of about 32%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Beach Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 59.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 70.8%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Calvert County) shows that median household earnings sit near $133,922, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 2% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Beach Elementary is one of 25 public schools in Calvert County (combined enrollment of about 14,849 students).

Nearest neighbor: Windy Hill Elementary, around 2.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Beach Elementary. On composite proficiency, Beach Elementary comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 60.1%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 12%: 571 students in 2018 compared to 502 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 68% to 61% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 16.0:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.