Chapel District Elementary

Set in Cordova, Maryland, Chapel District Elementary is a compact K-5 school, run under Talbot County Public Schools. It educates 359 students across grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 25% below the typical public school in Maryland, which averages around 481 students.

Chapel District Elementary is one of 8 schools operated by Talbot County Public Schools, a district that serves 4,485 students overall.

On demographics, Chapel District Elementary shows that 77% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 12% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 3% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Talbot County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Roughly 40% of students at Chapel District Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Talbot County runs at roughly 61%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Chapel District Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.5%, the actual is 59.7%, a residual of +9.2 points.

In the broader community, census data for Talbot County shows median household earnings sit near $84,811, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Chapel District Elementary is one of 8 public schools in Talbot County (combined enrollment of about 4,485 students).

Nearest neighbor: Easton Elementary, around 7.4 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 7 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Chapel District Elementary comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 39.1%.

Chapel District Elementary operates from an outlying location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Chapel District Elementary has fell 10%, going from 401 students in 2018 to 359 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 in 2025.

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