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Enrollment
397
Elementary
DISTRICT 471 · STATE 481
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240006000068
Fort Smallwood Elementary
1720 Poplar Ridge Rd, Pasadena, MD 21122 · (410) 222-6450 · Anne Arundel County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL397 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 32% 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.
- FBeats 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
13.5:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.1:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
23%
92 students
DISTRICT 46% · STATE 54%
Community
1
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 | 42 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 63 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 54 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 50 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 67 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 55 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 66 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (63) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (66).
Student demographics
34%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · 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
56.5%
MD avg 50.6% . +8.6pp since 2023
Math
43.2%
MD avg 34.8% . +0.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 57 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 43 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 9 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 56.5% | 43.2% |
| 2023-24 | 47.9% | 42.5% |
% 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
47.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
60.5%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-13.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 61% 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 Fort Smallwood Elementary
Fort Smallwood Elementary's state test result (47.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Smallwood Elementary this school | 397 | 23.2% | 47.5% |
| Myersville Elementary Myersville | 402 | 20.4% | 72.9% |
| Hampstead Elementary Hampstead | 400 | 26.3% | 62.4% |
| Churchville Elementary Churchville | 364 | 25.3% | 70.5% |
| Forest Lakes Elementary Forest Hill | 447 | 21.3% | 66.0% |
| Shady Side Elementary Shady Side | 391 | 27.6% | 46.6% |
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 Fort Smallwood Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Anne Arundel County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 47.5% | #367 of 853 | #39 of 80 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 43.2% | #390 of 853 ▼ 14 | #39 of 80 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 56.5% | #334 of 853 ▲ 62 | #38 of 80 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 397 | #600 of 898 | #59 of 84 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.5:1 | #358 of 857 | #44 of 81 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 33.9% | #685 of 857 | #73 of 81 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 23.2% | #762 of 885 | #61 of 83 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.6% | #420 of 551 | #38 of 49 |
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
397
-67 (-14%) vs 2020
+30% since 1990-91, when it was 306
Student : Teacher
13.5:1
was 15.5:1
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 | 397 | 29.5 | 13.5:1 | 23% (92) |
| 2023-24 | 404 | 31.1 | 13.0:1 | 24% (95) |
| 2022-23 | 425 | 32.1 | 13.2:1 | 21% (89) |
| 2020-21 | 464 | 30 | 15.5:1 | 13% (62) |
| 2017-18 | 425 | 25.5 | 16.7:1 | 13% (55) |
| 2015-16 | 432 | 26 | 16.6:1 | 22% (94) |
| 2010-11 | 398 | 24 | 16.6:1 | 18% (70) |
| 2000-01 | 331 | 16 | 20.7:1 | 11% (36) |
| 1990-91 | 306 | 15 | 20.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Fort Smallwood Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 7% (425 to 397); teachers up 16% (25.5 to 29.5).
About Fort Smallwood Elementary
The public elementary school Fort Smallwood Elementary is located in Pasadena, Maryland. The school serves 397 students in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25.
The district, Anne Arundel County Public Schools, has 85,029 students enrolled across 125 schools.
White students are the large majority at Fort Smallwood Elementary, with 81% of enrollment. Next come 9% Hispanic, 5% Black, and 4% multiracial. That compares with about 63% White among all Anne Arundel County residents. By the diversity index, Fort Smallwood Elementary comes in at 34%.
The school reports 29.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 13.5 students per teacher. Elementary schools in Maryland have a similar average ratio of 13.8:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility covers 23% of students. The average for public schools in Anne Arundel County is 42%.
The allk12 Grade for Fort Smallwood Elementary is C. Compared with Maryland public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 32% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
The BeatsExpectations prediction for Fort Smallwood Elementary is 60.5%, and its average proficiency rate on state tests is 47.5%.
Census Bureau estimates for Anne Arundel County show that median household income is about $124,911, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. A total of 129 public schools operate in Anne Arundel County, serving about 85,074 students.
Nearest public school: Chesapeake High, about 1.7 miles away. The five-mile area around Fort Smallwood Elementary holds at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools average 49.8% on proficiency, and Fort Smallwood Elementary is below that at 47.5%.
Federal data place Fort Smallwood Elementary in the Suburb: Large locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, Fort Smallwood Elementary went from 464 students to 397. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 15.5:1 to 13.5:1.
Community posts for Fort Smallwood Elementary can cover sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Anne Arundel County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
598,166
Census ACS
Median income
$124,911
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
46%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
129
85,074 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Anne Arundel County Public Schools
- Glen Burnie HighHigh · 2,226 students
- North County HighHigh · 2,161 students
- Broadneck HighHigh · 2,143 students
- Annapolis HighHigh · 2,075 students
- Meade HighHigh · 2,045 students
- Crofton High SchoolHigh · 1,906 students
Other schools in Pasadena
- Chesapeake HighHigh · 1,540 students
- Northeast HighHigh · 1,387 students
- Chesapeake Bay MiddleMiddle · 1,087 students
- Northeast MiddleMiddle · 901 students
- High Point ElementaryElementary · 665 students
- Sunset ElementaryElementary · 520 students
Nearby schools
- Chesapeake High1.7 mi · 1,540
- Chesapeake Bay Middle1.8 mi · 1,087
- Bodkin Elementary1.9 mi · 504
- Lake Shore Elementary2.1 mi · 280
- Riviera Beach Elementary2.6 mi · 270
- Jacobsville Elementary2.7 mi · 474
Frequently asked questions
About Fort Smallwood ElementaryHow many students attend Fort Smallwood Elementary?
Fort Smallwood Elementary enrolls approximately 397 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Fort Smallwood Elementary serve?
Fort Smallwood Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Fort Smallwood Elementary?
Approximately 13.5:1 students per teacher at Fort Smallwood Elementary.
What is the student diversity at Fort Smallwood Elementary?
Student demographics at Fort Smallwood Elementary are roughly 81% White, 9% Hispanic, 5% Black, 2% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is Fort Smallwood Elementary public or private?
Fort Smallwood Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Anne Arundel County Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.