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What's the most underrated thing about Centennial Lane Elementary that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
749
Elementary
DISTRICT 614 · STATE 481
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HOWARD COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240042000723
Centennial Lane Elementary
3825 Centennial Ln, Ellicott City, MD 21042 · (410) 313-2800 · Howard County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL749 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 94% of Maryland public elementary schools
- A+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
14.1:1
53 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.7:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
16%
123 students
DISTRICT 29% · 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 | 30 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 99 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 105 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 125 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 122 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 136 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 132 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (99) is 25% smaller than its 5th grade class (132).
Student demographics
69%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 77% · 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
82.1%
MD avg 50.6% . +4.7pp since 2023
Math
81.4%
MD avg 34.8% . +11.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 82 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 81 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 11 points.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 82.1% | 81.4% |
| 2023-24 | 77.4% | 70.1% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
77.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
64.5%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+13.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 78% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 65% 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%.
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 Centennial Lane Elementary
Centennial Lane Elementary's state test result (77.8% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Centennial Lane Elementary this school | 749 | 16.4% | 77.8% |
| Manor Woods Elementary Ellicott City | 697 | 16.9% | 77.1% |
| Diamond Elementary Gaithersburg | 654 | 12.4% | 77.5% |
| Triadelphia Ridge Elementary Ellicott City | 619 | 7.3% | 81.9% |
| Stone Mill Elementary North Potomac | 516 | 14.1% | 77.3% |
| Hollifield Station Elementary Ellicott City | 677 | 26.0% | 59.0% |
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 Centennial Lane Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Howard County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 77.8% | #45 of 853 | #7 of 42 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 81.4% | #21 of 853 ▲ 62 | #4 of 42 ▲ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 82.1% | #42 of 853 ▲ 24 | #5 of 42 ▲ 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 749 | #60 of 898 | #12 of 42 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.1:1 | #454 of 857 | #33 of 42 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.7% | #222 of 857 | #29 of 42 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 16.4% | #820 of 885 | #30 of 42 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.1% | #509 of 551 | #23 of 26 |
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
749
+94 (+14%) vs 2020
+8% since 1990-91, when it was 692
Student : Teacher
14.1:1
was 15.6:1
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 | 749 | 53.2 | 14.1:1 | 16% (123) |
| 2023-24 | 742 | 50 | 14.8:1 | 14% (105) |
| 2022-23 | 698 | 49.6 | 14.1:1 | 13% (89) |
| 2020-21 | 655 | 42 | 15.6:1 | 6% (37) |
| 2017-18 | 765 | 49 | 15.6:1 | 4% (33) |
| 2015-16 | 728 | 49 | 14.9:1 | 5% (37) |
| 2010-11 | 659 | 42 | 15.7:1 | 6% (40) |
| 2000-01 | 658 | 39 | 16.9:1 | 0% (3) |
| 1990-91 | 692 | 39 | 17.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Centennial Lane Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 2% (765 to 749); teachers up 9% (49 to 53.2).
About Centennial Lane Elementary
Centennial Lane Elementary is a high-enrollment elementary school for students in Ellicott City, Maryland. It teaches 749 students in pre-K through 5. Elementary schools in Maryland have about 481 students on average; enrollment here is 56% higher.
Howard County Public Schools has 57,565 students spread across 77 schools.
Asian students make up 44% of enrollment at Centennial Lane Elementary, the largest share of any group. Next come 32% White, 9% Black, 8% multiracial, and 6% Hispanic. That compares with about 19% Asian among all Howard County residents. A diversity index of 69% means there is a 69% chance two randomly chosen students at Centennial Lane Elementary are from different groups.
The school has 53.2 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 14.1 students per teacher. The 13.8:1 average for elementary schools in Maryland is close to this figure. Of all students at Centennial Lane Elementary, 16% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That rate is below the 27% average among public schools in Howard County.
Centennial Lane Elementary holds an A allk12 Grade, placing it above 94% of Maryland public elementary schools.
Centennial Lane Elementary's average proficiency rate across its state test results of 77.8% is 13.3 points above the 64.5% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
In Howard County, where the school is located, median household income comes to about $149,763, about 65% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 4% of residents are in poverty. There are 78 public schools in the county, enrolling about 57,565, Centennial Lane Elementary among them.
Of the public schools around it, Centennial Lane Elementary is closest to Burleigh Manor Middle, about 0.8 miles away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Local comparison: Centennial Lane Elementary ranks 1st of 8 nearby schools, at 77.8% versus a 57.3% average.
The school's locale code, Suburb: Large, means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment was 749 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 655. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 15.6:1 to 14.1:1.
This page is set up for the Centennial Lane Elementary community to discuss open houses, carpools, and field trips. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Howard County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
336,328
Census ACS
Median income
$149,763
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
65%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
78
57,565 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Howard County Public Schools
- Marriotts Ridge HighHigh · 1,741 students
- Reservoir HighHigh · 1,597 students
- Atholton HighHigh · 1,540 students
- Howard HighHigh · 1,493 students
- Mount Hebron HighHigh · 1,455 students
- Oakland Mills HighHigh · 1,413 students
Other schools in Ellicott City
- Howard HighHigh · 1,493 students
- Mount Hebron HighHigh · 1,455 students
- Centennial HighHigh · 1,377 students
- Veterans ElementaryElementary · 883 students
- Waverly ElementaryElementary · 827 students
- Bellows Spring ElementaryElementary · 806 students
Nearby schools
- Burleigh Manor Middle0.8 mi · 777
- Centennial High1.0 mi · 1,377
- Dunloggin Middle1.7 mi · 623
- Northfield Elementary1.8 mi · 764
- St. Johns Lane Elementary2.3 mi · 636
- Homewood School2.5 mi · 109
Frequently asked questions
About Centennial Lane ElementaryHow many students attend Centennial Lane Elementary?
Centennial Lane Elementary enrolls approximately 749 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Centennial Lane Elementary serve?
Centennial Lane Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Centennial Lane Elementary?
Approximately 14.1:1 students per teacher at Centennial Lane Elementary.
What is the student diversity at Centennial Lane Elementary?
Student demographics at Centennial Lane Elementary are roughly 32% White, 6% Hispanic, 9% Black, 44% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Is Centennial Lane Elementary public or private?
Centennial Lane Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Howard County Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.