Bollman Bridge Elementary

As a high-enrollment elementary school in Jessup, Maryland, Bollman Bridge Elementary instructs 775 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within Howard County Public Schools. Enrollment runs roughly 61% above the state mean of about 481.

Howard County Public Schools comprises 77 schools with combined enrollment of 57,565 students; Bollman Bridge Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Bollman Bridge Elementary records that 37% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder consists of 29% Hispanic, 22% White, 6% multiracial, 6% Asian. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 20%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Bollman Bridge Elementary has 64 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.1:1. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 53% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Howard County's rate of about 27%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Bollman Bridge Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.9%, the actual is 39.9%, a residual of -3.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, Howard County reports that the typical household earns roughly $149,763 per year, 65% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Howard County's 78 public schools (combined enrollment of about 57,565 students), Bollman Bridge Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Patuxent Valley Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Bollman Bridge Elementary comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 43.1%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Bollman Bridge Elementary has edged up 7%, going from 722 students in 2018 to 775 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 19% to 29% over that span.

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