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Enrollment
598
Elementary
DISTRICT 569 · STATE 481
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHARLES COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240027000380
C. Paul Barnhart Elementary School
4800 Lancaster Circle, Waldorf, MD 20603 · (301) 645-9053 · Charles County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY22-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL598 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 80% of Maryland public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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
16.6:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.0:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
61%
362 students
DISTRICT 51% · 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 | 64 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 90 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 75 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 99 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 95 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 82 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 93 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (90) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (93).
Student demographics
50%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 61% · 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
50.0%
MD avg 50.6% . -5.0pp since 2023
Math
55.7%
MD avg 34.8% . +0.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 50 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 56 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 50.0% | 55.7% |
| 2023-24 | 55.0% | 55.0% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of MD schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
53.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
38.4%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+15.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 38% typical for Maryland schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 16 points, placing it in Maryland's top 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 C. Paul Barnhart Elementary School
C. Paul Barnhart Elementary School's state test result (53.9% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| C. Paul Barnhart Elementary School this school | 598 | 60.5% | 53.9% |
| Northview Elementary Bowie | 587 | 62.5% | 33.2% |
| Brandywine Elementary Brandywine | 572 | 58.4% | 27.9% |
| Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer Elementary School Waldorf | 661 | 59.9% | 26.1% |
| J. C. Parks Elementary School Indian Head | 653 | 59.7% | 34.2% |
| Bedford Elementary Baltimore | 586 | 64.5% | 41.1% |
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 C. Paul Barnhart Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Charles County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 53.9% | #286 of 853 | #1 of 22 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 55.7% | #238 of 853 ▼ 3 | #1 of 22 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 50.0% | #427 of 853 ▼ 129 | #8 of 22 ▼ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 598 | #217 of 898 | #12 of 22 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.6:1 | #761 of 857 | #19 of 22 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 49.6% | #523 of 857 | #18 of 22 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 60.5% | #394 of 885 | #6 of 22 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.3% | #241 of 551 | #4 of 15 |
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
598
-11 (-2%) vs 2020
-16% since 2000-01, when it was 711
Student : Teacher
16.6:1
was 15.2:1
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 | 598 | 36 | 16.6:1 | 61% (362) |
| 2023-24 | 588 | 39 | 15.1:1 | 58% (343) |
| 2022-23 | 575 | 42.8 | 13.4:1 | 56% (323) |
| 2020-21 | 609 | 40 | 15.2:1 | 48% (291) |
| 2017-18 | 698 | 40.7 | 17.1:1 | 52% (361) |
| 2015-16 | 663 | 39 | 17.0:1 | 67% (446) |
| 2010-11 | 587 | 32 | 18.3:1 | 64% (375) |
| 2000-01 | 711 | 37 | 19.2:1 | 30% (210) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for C. Paul Barnhart Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 14% (698 to 598); teachers down 12% (40.7 to 36).
About C. Paul Barnhart Elementary School
Located in Waldorf, Maryland, C. Paul Barnhart Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school. It offers pre-K through 5 and has 598 students enrolled. Elementary schools in Maryland have about 481 students on average; enrollment here is 24% higher.
Charles County Public Schools includes 38 schools. Together they enroll 28,162 students.
The student body at C. Paul Barnhart Elementary School is 68% Black. The rest of enrollment is 17% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 3% Asian, and 2% White. Among all residents of Charles County, the Black share is about 49%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 50%.
There are about 16.6 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at C. Paul Barnhart Elementary School, which has 36. Elementary schools in Maryland have an average ratio of 13.8:1. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 61%. The rate at public schools in Charles County averages 50%, lower than here.
C. Paul Barnhart Elementary School holds an A- allk12 Grade, placing it above 80% of Maryland public elementary schools.
BeatsExpectations places C. Paul Barnhart Elementary School in the top 10% of Maryland schools. The measure fits a line through proficiency and free or reduced-price lunch share for each state, and this school sits 15.5 points above it (53.9% actual, 38.4% predicted).
In Charles County, median household income comes to about $122,816, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 34% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 5%. The county's public schools total 40, with about 28,162 students.
William B. Wade Elementary School, about 0.7 miles away, is the closest public school. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. On average proficiency, C. Paul Barnhart Elementary School is 1st of 9 nearby schools with test data.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Mid-size: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Over 4 years, enrollment stayed close to where it was, going from 609 to 598. By 2024-25, the school had 16.6 students per teacher, compared with 15.2 in 2020-21.
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Charles County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
170,527
Census ACS
Median income
$122,816
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
40
28,162 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Charles County Public Schools
- North Point High SchoolHigh · 1,960 students
- St. Charles High SchoolHigh · 1,617 students
- Thomas Stone High SchoolHigh · 1,230 students
- La Plata High SchoolHigh · 1,217 students
- Westlake High SchoolHigh · 1,216 students
- Maurice J. McDonough High SchoolHigh · 1,163 students
Other schools in Waldorf
- North Point High SchoolHigh · 1,960 students
- St. Charles High SchoolHigh · 1,617 students
- Thomas Stone High SchoolHigh · 1,230 students
- Westlake High SchoolHigh · 1,216 students
- Theodore G. Davis Middle SchoolMiddle · 999 students
- Benjamin Stoddert Middle SchoolMiddle · 920 students
Nearby schools
- William B. Wade Elementary School0.7 mi · 651
- Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer Elementary School0.8 mi · 661
- Westlake High School1.6 mi · 1,216
- Arthur Middleton Elementary School1.7 mi · 774
- Billingsley Elementary School1.7 mi · 687
- Dr. Samuel A. Mudd Elementary School1.8 mi · 497
Frequently asked questions
About C. Paul Barnhart Elementary SchoolHow large is C. Paul Barnhart Elementary School?
C. Paul Barnhart Elementary School enrolls approximately 598 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does C. Paul Barnhart Elementary School serve?
C. Paul Barnhart Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at C. Paul Barnhart Elementary School?
Approximately 16.6:1 students per teacher at C. Paul Barnhart Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at C. Paul Barnhart Elementary School?
At C. Paul Barnhart Elementary School, the student body is approximately 2% White, 17% Hispanic, 68% Black, 3% Asian, 8% Two or more.
What district is C. Paul Barnhart Elementary School in?
C. Paul Barnhart Elementary School is part of Charles County Public Schools.
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