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Brock Bridge Elementary
Test scores
MCAP 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 3-4)What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 29 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Maryland schools, those numbers are about 51 and 35. Reading and writing scores are up about 13 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 31% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 33% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Brock Bridge Elementary
Brock Bridge Elementary, a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community in Laurel, Maryland, one of the schools within Anne Arundel County Public Schools, serves 514 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.
Brock Bridge Elementary is one of 125 schools operated by Anne Arundel County Public Schools, a district that instructs 85,029 students overall.
On demographics, Brock Bridge Elementary logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 46%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 41% Black, 5% multiracial, 4% White, 3% Asian. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 11%.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 70% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Anne Arundel County's rate of about 42%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Brock Bridge Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 33.0%; this one delivers 31.1%.
In the broader community, the surrounding county (Anne Arundel County) logs that median household income runs about $124,911, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Anne Arundel County's 129 public schools (combined enrollment of about 85,074 students), Brock Bridge Elementary is one campus in the mix.
Monarch Global Academy PCS Laurel Campus is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Brock Bridge Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Brock Bridge Elementary at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 30.8%.
Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Brock Bridge Elementary has shrank 14%, going from 596 students in 2018 to 514 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 40% to 46% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 10.1:1 in 2025.
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