Benfield Elementary

Located at 365 Lynwood Dr, in Severna Park, Maryland, Benfield Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community that enrolls 500 students (grades pre-K through 5), part of Anne Arundel County Public Schools.

Benfield Elementary is one of 125 schools operated by Anne Arundel County Public Schools, a district that instructs 85,029 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Benfield Elementary logs that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 5% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Anne Arundel County as a whole is about 63% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Benfield Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 8% of students at Benfield Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than Anne Arundel County's rate of about 42%.

With demographic context factored in, Benfield Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 69.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 79.5%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Anne Arundel County indicate the typical household earns roughly $124,911 per year, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Anne Arundel County runs 129 public schools (combined enrollment of about 85,074 students), of which Benfield Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Severna Park Middle, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Benfield Elementary comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 71.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 14%: 437 students in 2018 compared to 500 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 today.

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