Clarksville Elementary

Located at 12041 Clarksville Pike, in Clarksville, Maryland, Clarksville Elementary is an average-sized K-5 school that serves 543 students (grades K through 5), one of the schools within Howard County Public Schools.

Clarksville Elementary is one of 77 schools operated by Howard County Public Schools, a district that educates 57,565 students overall.

On demographics, Clarksville Elementary logs that 37% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school records 30% White, 18% Black, 9% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 19% Asian, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Asian than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.6:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 18% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Howard County (around 27%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Clarksville Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 63.8%; this one delivers 74.9%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Howard County indicate the typical household earns roughly $149,763 per year, 65% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Clarksville Elementary is one of 78 public schools in Howard County (combined enrollment of about 57,565 students).

Nearest neighbor: River Hill High, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Clarksville Elementary. On composite proficiency, Clarksville Elementary comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 55.4%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Clarksville Elementary has climbed 26%, going from 432 students in 2018 to 543 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 56% to 37% across the same window.

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