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Greensboro Elementary School
Test scores
MCAP 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 3-4)What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 42 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 44 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 13 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 29% 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 Greensboro Elementary School
As a sprawling elementary-level community in Greensboro, Maryland, Greensboro Elementary School teaches 840 students from grades pre-K through 5, overseen by Caroline County Public Schools. By comparison, Maryland's public schools average about 481 students each, so Greensboro Elementary School sits 75% above that benchmark.
Greensboro Elementary School is one of 9 schools operated by Caroline County Public Schools, a district that works with 5,648 students overall.
On the student-mix side, Greensboro Elementary School lists that 50% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school logs 40% White, 6% multiracial, 4% Black. By comparison, Caroline County as a whole is about 9% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the resource side, Greensboro Elementary School shows 65 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.9:1. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 77% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Caroline County's rate of about 66%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Greensboro Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 28.9%, the actual is 38.4%, a residual of +9.5 points.
In the surrounding community, Caroline County reports that the typical household earns roughly $68,457 per year, about 16% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Caroline County runs 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,648 students), of which Greensboro Elementary School is one.
The closest other public school is Ridgely Elementary School, roughly 4.9 miles away. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Greensboro Elementary School at 3rd of 5; the average score across the group is 41.7%.
The school occupies an outlying site.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Greensboro Elementary School has rose 3%, going from 814 students in 2018 to 840 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 54% to 40%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 today.
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Caroline County at a glance
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- North Caroline High SchoolHigh · 1,238 students
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- Ridgely Elementary SchoolElementary · 433 students
- Federalsburg Elementary SchoolElementary · 415 students
- Ridgely Elementary School4.9 mi · 433
- North Caroline High School5.6 mi · 1,238
- Lockerman Middle School6.6 mi · 827
- Denton Elementary School8.0 mi · 596
- Lake Forest South Elementary School12.3 mi · 407
- Chipman (W.T.) Middle School12.4 mi · 905