Centerville Elementary

Centerville Elementary is an elementary-level community of reasonably sized scale in Frederick, Maryland, part of Frederick County Public Schools, instructing 471 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Within Frederick County Public Schools, which oversees 67 schools and 48,054 students, Centerville Elementary is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Centerville Elementary shows that the largest single group is White at 34%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school logs 28% Asian, 16% Black, 11% Hispanic, 11% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 68%.

On the resource side, On paper, Centerville Elementary has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Centerville Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 19% of students at Centerville Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Frederick County (around 37%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Centerville Elementary ranks in the top 10% of Maryland public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 62.9%; Centerville Elementary posts 81.5%, +18.6 points above that line.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Frederick County indicate the typical household earns roughly $122,002 per year, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Frederick County runs 69 public schools (combined enrollment of about 48,054 students), of which Centerville Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Urbana Middle, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Centerville Elementary. On composite proficiency, Centerville Elementary comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 65.1%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 51%: 956 students in 2018 compared to 471 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 51% to 34% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 in 2025.

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