Eldersburg Elementary

Eldersburg Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack primary school in Sykesville, Maryland, one of the schools within Carroll County Public Schools. The school works with 470 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 43 schools in Carroll County Public Schools (26,141 students total), Eldersburg Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Eldersburg Elementary lists that 79% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school lists 6% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 5% multiracial, 4% Black.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. An estimated 16% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Carroll County runs at roughly 28%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Eldersburg Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.7%, the actual is 70.9%, a residual of +6.2 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Carroll County) records that the typical household earns roughly $118,211 per year, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Eldersburg Elementary is one of 44 public schools in Carroll County (combined enrollment of about 26,141 students).

Liberty High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Eldersburg Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 65.6%.

Eldersburg Elementary operates from a small-town location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Eldersburg Elementary has showed little movement, going from 460 students in 2018 to 470 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment declined from 10% to 6% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 today.

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