Elkridge Elementary

Elkridge Elementary is a well-populated K-5 school in Elkridge, Maryland, one of the schools within Howard County Public Schools. The school teaches 798 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Maryland's public schools average about 481 students each, so Elkridge Elementary sits 66% bigger than that benchmark.

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

On the student-mix side, Elkridge Elementary reports that 34% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school records 27% White, 22% Asian, 9% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 20% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Elkridge Elementary logs 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 46% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Howard County runs at roughly 27%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Elkridge Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.1%, the actual is 47.4%, a residual of +0.3 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Howard County indicate the typical household earns roughly $149,763 per year, about 65% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Howard County's 78 public schools (combined enrollment of about 57,565 students), Elkridge Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Elkridge Landing Middle, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Elkridge Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 48.4%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Elkridge Elementary has decreased 13%, going from 919 students in 2018 to 798 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 44% to 27%.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Elkridge Elementary typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.