Clemens Crossing Elementary

Clemens Crossing Elementary is one of the average-sized elementary campuss in Columbia, Maryland, one of the schools within Howard County Public Schools, with 481 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

Howard County Public Schools runs 77 schools in total, collectively educating 57,565 students. Clemens Crossing Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Clemens Crossing Elementary records that the most-represented group is White (41%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest looks like 25% Black, 12% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 10% Asian.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Clemens Crossing Elementary has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 24% of students at Clemens Crossing Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Clemens Crossing Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.2%, the actual is 68.2%, a residual of +8.0 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Howard County put the typical household earns roughly $149,763 per year, about 65% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Howard County runs 78 public schools (combined enrollment of about 57,565 students), of which Clemens Crossing Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Atholton High, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Clemens Crossing Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Clemens Crossing Elementary at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 43.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Five-year trend. Clemens Crossing Elementary's enrollment has edged down 13% since 2018, when it stood at 550 (now 481). Over the same period, the Black share edged up from 15% to 25%.

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