Enrollment
389
Elementary
DISTRICT 433 · STATE 481
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WASHINGTON COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240066001264
Emma K. Doub Elementary
1221 S Potomac St, Hagerstown, MD 21740 · (301) 766-8130 · Washington County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL389 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 74% of Maryland public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Maryland public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
18.4:1
21 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.1:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
58%
226 students
DISTRICT 56% · STATE 54%
Community
0
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 | 34 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 43 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 48 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 67 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 64 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 68 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 65 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (43) is 34% smaller than its 5th grade class (65).
Student demographics
70%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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
51.6%
MD avg 50.6% . -11.0pp since 2023
Math
52.5%
MD avg 34.8% . +10.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 53 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Maryland schools, those numbers are about 51 and 35. Reading and writing scores are down about 11 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 10 points.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 51.6% | 52.5% |
| 2023-24 | 62.6% | 42.3% |
% 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
52.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.8%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+12.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 52% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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 Emma K. Doub Elementary
Emma K. Doub Elementary's state test result (52.3% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emma K. Doub Elementary this school | 389 | 58.1% | 52.3% |
| Fountaindale Elementary Hagerstown | 413 | 56.9% | 60.4% |
| Robert Moton Elementary Westminster | 440 | 59.3% | 45.5% |
| Fruitland Intermediate Fruitland | 343 | 57.1% | 41.1% |
| Cecil Manor Elementary Elkton | 416 | 60.1% | 29.6% |
| Fruitland Primary Fruitland | 445 | 58.9% | N/A |
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 Emma K. Doub Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Washington County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 52.3% | #312 of 853 | #12 of 24 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 52.5% | #267 of 853 ▲ 114 | #10 of 24 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 51.6% | #399 of 853 ▼ 190 | #16 of 24 ▼ 11 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 389 | #619 of 898 | #15 of 25 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.4:1 | #844 of 857 | #22 of 22 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.7% | #193 of 857 | #10 of 22 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 58.1% | #437 of 885 | #14 of 25 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +16.5% | #96 of 294 | #5 of 13 |
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
389
+39 (+11%) vs 2020
+35% since 1990-91, when it was 289
Student : Teacher
18.4:1
was 15.2:1
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 | 389 | 21.2 | 18.4:1 | 58% (226) |
| 2023-24 | 370 | 22.2 | 16.7:1 | 64% (238) |
| 2022-23 | 354 | 23 | 15.4:1 | 67% (237) |
| 2020-21 | 350 | 23 | 15.2:1 | 57% (199) |
| 2017-18 | 334 | 19.5 | 17.1:1 | 49% (165) |
| 2015-16 | 304 | 19 | 16.0:1 | 55% (166) |
| 2010-11 | 264 | 19 | 13.9:1 | 59% (156) |
| 2000-01 | 295 | 18 | 16.4:1 | 33% (96) |
| 1990-91 | 289 | 16 | 18.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Emma K. Doub Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 16% (334 to 389); teachers up 9% (19.5 to 21.2).
About Emma K. Doub Elementary
Among the schools in Hagerstown, Maryland, is Emma K. Doub Elementary, a small elementary school. It reported 389 students in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25.
Emma K. Doub Elementary is one of 43 schools in Washington County Public Schools, which enrolls 23,320 students in total.
The student body at Emma K. Doub Elementary has no majority group. White students lead at 46%. Next come 21% Hispanic, 17% Black, 14% multiracial, and 2% Asian. The county population is about 75% White. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 70, compared with 70 nationally.
Staffing at Emma K. Doub Elementary comes to 21.2 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 18.4:1. Elementary schools in Maryland average 13.8:1, 4.5 fewer students per teacher than here. Emma K. Doub Elementary counts 58% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The figure for public schools in Washington County is close, at 58%.
Emma K. Doub Elementary earns a B+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 74% of Maryland public elementary schools.
Emma K. Doub Elementary's average proficiency rate across its state test results of 52.3% is 12.4 points above the 39.8% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
Looking at the county, Washington County, median household income comes to about $77,747, about 24% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 9%. The county's public schools total 44, with about 23,320 students.
E. Russell Hicks Middle is about 0.1 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Emma K. Doub Elementary is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Nearby schools average 38.1% on proficiency, and Emma K. Doub Elementary is above that at 52.3%.
Under the NCES locale system, Emma K. Doub Elementary is City: Small.
Enrollment rose by 11% across 4 years, from 350 in 2020-21 to 389 in 2024-25. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 15.2:1 to 18.4:1.
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Washington County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
155,709
Census ACS
Median income
$77,747
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
24%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
44
23,320 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Washington County Public Schools
- South Hagerstown HighHigh · 1,690 students
- North Hagerstown HighHigh · 1,583 students
- Williamsport HighHigh · 1,061 students
- Western Heights MiddleMiddle · 883 students
- E. Russell Hicks MiddleMiddle · 841 students
- Northern MiddleMiddle · 841 students
Other schools in Hagerstown
- South Hagerstown HighHigh · 1,690 students
- North Hagerstown HighHigh · 1,583 students
- Western Heights MiddleMiddle · 883 students
- E. Russell Hicks MiddleMiddle · 841 students
- Northern MiddleMiddle · 841 students
- Pangborn ElementaryElementary · 749 students
Nearby schools
- E. Russell Hicks Middle0.1 mi · 841
- South Hagerstown High0.2 mi · 1,690
- Boyd J. Michael III Technical High School0.3 mi · 548
- Bester Elementary1.3 mi · 490
- Lincolnshire Elementary1.5 mi · 503
- Barbara Ingram School for the Arts1.8 mi · 347
Frequently asked questions
About Emma K. Doub ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Emma K. Doub Elementary?
Emma K. Doub Elementary enrolls approximately 389 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Emma K. Doub Elementary serve?
Emma K. Doub Elementary serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Emma K. Doub Elementary?
Approximately 18.4:1 students per teacher at Emma K. Doub Elementary.
How diverse is Emma K. Doub Elementary?
Emma K. Doub Elementary reports a student body of 46% White, 21% Hispanic, 17% Black, 2% Asian, 14% Two or more.
Who oversees Emma K. Doub Elementary?
Emma K. Doub Elementary is overseen by Washington County Public Schools in Washington County.
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