Cresaptown Elementary

Cresaptown Elementary is an elementary-level community of compact scale in Cresaptown, Maryland, overseen by Allegany County Public Schools, caters to 268 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 44% below the state mean of about 481.

Cresaptown Elementary is one of 22 schools operated by Allegany County Public Schools, a district that hosts 8,113 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Cresaptown Elementary logs that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 5% multiracial, 3% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Allegany County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, Cresaptown Elementary records 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Roughly 58% of students at Cresaptown Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Cresaptown Elementary ranks in the top 10% of Maryland public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 40.0%; Cresaptown Elementary posts 60.5%, +20.4 points above that line.

Across the wider county, Allegany County reports that the typical household earns roughly $59,603 per year, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Allegany County's 22 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,113 students), Cresaptown Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Center for Career & Technical Education, around 0.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Cresaptown Elementary comes 2nd of 4 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 57.8%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 17%: 321 students in 2018 compared to 268 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 92% to 88% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 today.

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