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Green Valley Elementary
Test scores
MCAP 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 3-4)What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 80 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 68 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 16 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 70% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 66% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Green Valley Elementary
As a sprawling elementary-level community in Monrovia, Maryland, Green Valley Elementary hosts 850 students from grades K through 5, one of the schools within Frederick County Public Schools. Enrollment runs roughly 77% larger than the state mean of about 481.
Green Valley Elementary is one of 67 schools operated by Frederick County Public Schools, a district that works with 48,054 students overall.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Green Valley Elementary lists that 44% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 23% Asian, 14% Hispanic, 10% Black, 9% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 68% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, Green Valley Elementary shows 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.9:1. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 13% of students at Green Valley Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Frederick County (around 37%), the school's rate is south of typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Green Valley Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 66.3%, the actual is 69.9%, a residual of +3.6 points.
Across the wider county, Frederick County reports that the typical household earns roughly $122,002 per year, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Green Valley Elementary is one of 69 public schools in Frederick County (combined enrollment of about 48,054 students).
Nearest neighbor: Windsor Knolls Middle, around 1.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Green Valley Elementary at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 65.0%.
The school occupies an outlying site.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Green Valley Elementary has ticked up 104%, going from 417 students in 2018 to 850 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 73% to 44%.
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