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Enrollment
478
Elementary
DISTRICT 410 · STATE 481
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CECIL COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240024000569
Gilpin Manor Elementary
203 Newark Ave, Elkton, MD 21921 · (410) 996-5040 · Cecil County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL478 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 12% of Maryland public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-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
14.9:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.5:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
72%
342 students
DISTRICT 52% · STATE 54%
Community
5
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 | 71 | 15% |
| Kindergarten | 71 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 70 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 69 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 60 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 69 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 68 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (71) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (68).
Student demographics
72%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 51% · 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
19.5%
MD avg 50.6% . -13.4pp since 2023
Math
17.7%
MD avg 34.8% . -16.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 20 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 18 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 13 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 16 points.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 19.5% | 17.7% |
| 2023-24 | 32.9% | 34.0% |
% 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
26.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
31.9%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 26% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 32% 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 Gilpin Manor Elementary
Gilpin Manor Elementary's state test result (26.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gilpin Manor Elementary this school | 478 | 71.5% | 26.0% |
| Holly Hall Elementary Elkton | 432 | 69.7% | 25.4% |
| Logan Elementary Baltimore | 556 | 73.6% | 28.9% |
| Thomson Estates Elementary Elkton | 456 | 66.4% | 18.9% |
| Essex Elementary Baltimore | 481 | 70.5% | 29.2% |
| Lincolnshire Elementary Hagerstown | 503 | 69.2% | 36.4% |
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 Gilpin Manor Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Cecil County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 26.0% | #699 of 853 | #15 of 17 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 17.7% | #774 of 853 ▼ 285 | #16 of 17 ▼ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 19.5% | #818 of 853 ▼ 203 | #17 of 17 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 478 | #428 of 898 | #4 of 17 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.9:1 | #569 of 857 | #9 of 17 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 72.3% | #104 of 857 | #2 of 17 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 71.5% | #256 of 885 | #1 of 17 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +18.0% | #84 of 294 | N/A |
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
478
+86 (+22%) vs 2020
+25% since 1990-91, when it was 383
Student : Teacher
14.9:1
was 12.3:1
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 | 478 | 32.1 | 14.9:1 | 72% (342) |
| 2023-24 | 450 | 32.6 | 13.8:1 | 70% (317) |
| 2022-23 | 477 | 32 | 14.9:1 | 78% (373) |
| 2020-21 | 392 | 32 | 12.3:1 | 66% (259) |
| 2017-18 | 405 | 29 | 14.0:1 | 100% (405) |
| 2015-16 | 466 | 34 | 13.7:1 | 65% (305) |
| 2010-11 | 439 | 30 | 14.6:1 | 67% (292) |
| 2000-01 | 413 | 42 | 9.8:1 | 42% (173) |
| 1990-91 | 383 | 30 | 12.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Gilpin Manor Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 18% (405 to 478); teachers up 11% (29 to 32.1).
About Gilpin Manor Elementary
Students in Elkton, Maryland, attend Gilpin Manor Elementary, a mid-sized elementary school. It offers pre-K through 5 and has 478 students enrolled.
Cecil County Public Schools oversees Gilpin Manor Elementary and 27 other schools, with 14,853 students in total.
At Gilpin Manor Elementary, White students make up the biggest share, 36%. Smaller groups are 29% Black, 21% Hispanic, and 12% multiracial. County-wide, 82% of Cecil County residents are White. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 72%.
With 32.1 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 14.9:1. The average for elementary schools in Maryland is 13.8:1, so this school has more students per teacher. Student poverty is often measured by lunch eligibility; at Gilpin Manor Elementary, 72% qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. On average, public schools in Cecil County report 51%.
Gilpin Manor Elementary holds a D allk12 Grade, placing it above 12% of Maryland public elementary schools.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Gilpin Manor Elementary is 5.8 points below the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 26.0% actual, 31.9% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Maryland.
In Cecil County, where the school is located, median household income comes to about $92,007, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 28%, and about 8% of people live in poverty. There are 29 public schools in the county, enrolling about 14,853, Gilpin Manor Elementary among them.
Elkton Middle is about 0.2 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Within five miles of Gilpin Manor Elementary, there are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, Gilpin Manor Elementary is 5th of 8 nearby schools with test data.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment increased 22%. The number of students per teacher increased from 12.3 to 14.9 over 4 years.
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Cecil County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
104,960
Census ACS
Median income
$92,007
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
29
14,853 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Cecil County Public Schools
- Rising Sun HighHigh · 1,074 students
- North East HighHigh · 1,057 students
- Elkton HighHigh · 1,050 students
- Perryville HighHigh · 858 students
- North East MiddleMiddle · 758 students
- North East ElementaryElementary · 615 students
Other schools in Elkton
- Elkton HighHigh · 1,050 students
- Elkton MiddleMiddle · 538 students
- Thomson Estates ElementaryElementary · 456 students
- Holly Hall ElementaryElementary · 432 students
- Elk Neck ElementaryElementary · 428 students
- Cecil Manor ElementaryElementary · 416 students
Nearby schools
- Elkton Middle0.2 mi · 538
- Elkton High0.3 mi · 1,050
- Holly Hall Elementary1.9 mi · 432
- Thomson Estates Elementary2.1 mi · 456
- Cecil Manor Elementary2.8 mi · 416
- Newark Charter School3.4 mi · 3,109
Frequently asked questions
About Gilpin Manor ElementaryHow large is Gilpin Manor Elementary?
Gilpin Manor Elementary enrolls approximately 478 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Gilpin Manor Elementary serve?
Gilpin Manor Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does Gilpin Manor Elementary have?
Gilpin Manor Elementary employs 32 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.9:1.
How diverse is Gilpin Manor Elementary?
Gilpin Manor Elementary reports a student body of 36% White, 21% Hispanic, 29% Black, 1% Asian, 12% Two or more.
Is Gilpin Manor Elementary public or private?
Gilpin Manor Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Cecil County Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.