Clear Spring Elementary

Clear Spring Elementary is an intimate K-5 school in Clear Spring, Maryland, one of the schools within Washington County Public Schools. The school educates 398 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Washington County Public Schools runs 43 schools in total, collectively educating 23,320 students. Clear Spring Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Clear Spring Elementary records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (90%); the rest looks like 6% Hispanic, 2% Black. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 75%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Clear Spring Elementary has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.0:1. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 46% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is south of Washington County's rate of about 58%.

After controlling for student poverty, Clear Spring Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.7%, the actual is 53.7%, a residual of +7.0 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Washington County indicate median household income runs about $77,747, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Washington County runs 44 public schools (combined enrollment of about 23,320 students), of which Clear Spring Elementary is one.

Clear Spring Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Clear Spring Elementary at 2nd of 6; the average score across the group is 47.5%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Five-year trend. Clear Spring Elementary's enrollment has fell 5% since 2018, when it stood at 417 (now 398). The White share of enrollment fell from 95% to 90% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 18.5:1 in 2018 to 17.0:1 in 2025.

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