Charles H. Chipman Elementary

As a low-enrollment elementary-level community in Salisbury, Maryland, Charles H. Chipman Elementary serves 303 students from grades pre-K through 1, one of the schools within Wicomico County Public Schools. That puts it 37% smaller than the typical public school in Maryland, which averages around 481 students.

Within Wicomico County Public Schools, which oversees 25 schools and 15,582 students, Charles H. Chipman Elementary is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Charles H. Chipman Elementary logs that 68% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest consists of 13% White, 11% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 27% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. An estimated 71% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Wicomico County (around 59%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Wicomico County indicate the typical household earns roughly $76,210 per year, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Wicomico County runs 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,582 students), of which Charles H. Chipman Elementary is one.

Salisbury Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Over the past 7-year window. Charles H. Chipman Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 25% since 2018, when it stood at 405 (now 303). Over the same period, the Black share rose from 57% to 68%.

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