Fort Smallwood Elementary

Fort Smallwood Elementary is one of the tight-knit K-5 schools in Pasadena, Maryland, overseen by Anne Arundel County Public Schools, with 397 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Anne Arundel County Public Schools runs 125 schools in total, collectively educating 85,029 students. Fort Smallwood Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Fort Smallwood Elementary logs that nearly all students (81%) are White. Beyond that, the school records 9% Hispanic, 5% Black, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Anne Arundel County as a whole is about 63% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Fort Smallwood Elementary has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 23% of students at Fort Smallwood Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Anne Arundel County (around 42%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Fort Smallwood Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 60.5%; this one delivers 47.5%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Anne Arundel County) logs that median household income runs about $124,911, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Anne Arundel County runs 129 public schools (combined enrollment of about 85,074 students), of which Fort Smallwood Elementary is one.

Chesapeake High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Fort Smallwood Elementary comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 49.8%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 7%: 425 students in 2018 compared to 397 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 89% to 81%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 today.

On allk12, members of the Fort Smallwood Elementary community share and discuss sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.