Central Special School

Located at 140 Stepney Ln, in Edgewater, Maryland, Central Special School is a rural-scale unified-grade school that teaches 109 students (grades pre-K through 12), one of the schools within Anne Arundel County Public Schools. That puts it 60% below the typical public school in Maryland, which averages around 275 students.

Across the 125 schools in Anne Arundel County Public Schools (85,029 students total), Central Special School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Central Special School logs that the most-represented group is White (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder is composed of 23% Hispanic, 22% Black, 7% Asian, 4% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 63%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 6.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 6.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 50% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Across the wider county, census data for Anne Arundel County shows median household earnings sit near $124,911, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Anne Arundel County's 129 public schools (combined enrollment of about 85,074 students), Central Special School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Central Elementary, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Central Special School.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Five-year trend. Central Special School's enrollment has fell 17% since 2018, when it stood at 131 (now 109). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 53% to 44%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 7.1:1 in 2018 to 6.1:1 today.

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