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What tradition at Deerfield Elementary should never be changed?
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Enrollment
708
Elementary
DISTRICT 537 · STATE 481
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HARFORD COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240039000686
Deerfield Elementary
2307 Willoughby Beach Rd, Edgewood, MD 21040 · (410) 612-1535 · Harford County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY22-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL708 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
12.8:1
56 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.3:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
75%
530 students
DISTRICT 41% · STATE 54%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 72 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 94 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 94 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 111 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 113 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 108 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 116 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (94) is 19% smaller than its 5th grade class (116).
Student demographics
67%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 61% · STATE 73% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
MCAP 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 3-4)English Language Arts
40.9%
MD avg 50.6% . +11.1pp since 2023
Math
35.8%
MD avg 34.8% . +11.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 36 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Maryland schools, those numbers are about 51 and 35. Reading and writing scores are up about 11 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 12 points.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 40.9% | 35.8% |
| 2023-24 | 29.8% | 24.1% |
% Proficient (Levels 3-4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: MCAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
32.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
29.9%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 33% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 30% typical for Maryland schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Maryland's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Deerfield Elementary
Deerfield Elementary's state test result (32.6% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deerfield Elementary this school | 708 | 74.9% | 32.6% |
| Beaver Run School Salisbury | 741 | 71.1% | N/A |
| Victory Villa Elementary Baltimore | 612 | 74.2% | 31.9% |
| Old Post Road Elementary Abingdon | 850 | 79.6% | 38.0% |
| Pinehurst Elementary Salisbury | 564 | 68.8% | 32.7% |
| Southgate Elementary Glen Burnie | 573 | 69.1% | 35.9% |
Matched among Maryland elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Deerfield Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Harford County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 32.6% | #591 of 853 | #28 of 32 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 35.8% | #498 of 853 ▲ 135 | #26 of 32 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 40.9% | #549 of 853 ▲ 117 | #29 of 32 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 708 | #92 of 898 | #5 of 33 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.8:1 | #267 of 857 | #9 of 32 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.2% | #257 of 857 | #10 of 32 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 74.9% | #226 of 885 | #4 of 32 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.5% | #333 of 551 | #7 of 14 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
708
-12 (-2%) vs 2020
+24% since 1990-91, when it was 573
Student : Teacher
12.8:1
was 14.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 708 | 55.5 | 12.8:1 | 75% (530) |
| 2023-24 | 714 | 54.2 | 13.2:1 | 74% (527) |
| 2022-23 | 728 | 51.2 | 14.2:1 | 78% (566) |
| 2020-21 | 720 | 49 | 14.7:1 | 77% (551) |
| 2017-18 | 791 | 55.9 | 14.1:1 | 73% (581) |
| 2015-16 | 797 | 54 | 14.8:1 | 67% (536) |
| 2010-11 | 633 | 42 | 15.1:1 | 63% (400) |
| 2000-01 | 594 | 36 | 16.5:1 | 25% (149) |
| 1990-91 | 573 | 26 | 22.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Deerfield Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 10% (791 to 708); teachers down 1% (55.9 to 55.5).
About Deerfield Elementary
Federal records list Deerfield Elementary as an elementary school in Edgewood, Maryland. Students in pre-K through 5 attend, and enrollment is 708 students. The school's enrollment is 47% bigger than the 481 average for elementary schools in Maryland.
Harford County Public Schools is the local district for Deerfield Elementary. It runs 55 schools with 37,771 students.
No single group makes up more than half of enrollment at Deerfield Elementary. The largest is Black students, at 49%. The next largest groups are 19% White, 18% Hispanic, and 12% multiracial. In Harford County overall, about 14% of residents are Black. Pick two students at random and there is a 67% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Teacher staffing is 55.5 full-time equivalents, or about 12.8 students per teacher. On average, elementary schools in Maryland have 13.8:1, compared with 12.8:1 here. About 75% of students, or 530, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in Harford County average 39%.
Schools in Maryland with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 29.9%. Deerfield Elementary scores 32.6%.
County data help place the school in context: in Harford County, the median household income is $112,265, about 40% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. In all, Harford County has 55 public schools and roughly 37,771 students.
The shortest distance from Deerfield Elementary to another public school is less than a tenth of a mile, to Edgewood Middle. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. By average proficiency, Deerfield Elementary is 2nd among 9 schools close by.
The NCES locale for Deerfield Elementary is Suburb: Mid-size, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
The school's size has been steady, with 720 students in 2020-21 and 708 in 2024-25. Students per teacher fell from 14.7 in 2020-21 to 12.8 in 2024-25.
Questions about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news can be posted here. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
Harford County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
263,757
Census ACS
Median income
$112,265
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
40%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
55
37,771 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Harford County Public Schools
- Edgewood HighHigh · 1,440 students
- Aberdeen HighHigh · 1,396 students
- Bel Air HighHigh · 1,341 students
- C. Milton Wright HighHigh · 1,291 students
- North Harford HighHigh · 1,204 students
- Southampton MiddleMiddle · 1,192 students
Other schools in Edgewood
- Edgewood HighHigh · 1,440 students
- Edgewood MiddleMiddle · 936 students
- Edgewood ElementaryElementary · 428 students
Other Deerfield Elementary schools
13 other US public schools in 11 states are named Deerfield Elementary. Deerfield Elementary is the 2nd largest of the 14.
- Deerfield ElementaryLexington, SC · 753 students
- Deerfield ElementaryIrvine, CA · 615 students
- Deerfield Elementary SchoolMOUNTAINSIDE, NJ · 483 students
- Deerfield Elementary SchoolNOVI, MI · 459 students
- Deerfield ElemLawrence, KS · 433 students
Nearby schools
- Edgewood Middle0.1 mi · 936
- Edgewood High0.2 mi · 1,440
- Edgewood Elementary0.5 mi · 428
- Old Post Road Elementary2.0 mi · 850
- Magnolia Middle2.3 mi · 689
- Magnolia Elementary2.3 mi · 545
Frequently asked questions
About Deerfield ElementaryHow many students attend Deerfield Elementary?
Deerfield Elementary enrolls approximately 708 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Deerfield Elementary serve?
Deerfield Elementary serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Deerfield Elementary?
Approximately 12.8:1 students per teacher at Deerfield Elementary.
What is the student diversity at Deerfield Elementary?
Student demographics at Deerfield Elementary are roughly 19% White, 18% Hispanic, 49% Black, 1% Asian, 12% Two or more.
What district is Deerfield Elementary in?
Deerfield Elementary is part of Harford County Public Schools.
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