Guilford Elementary

Located at 7335 Oakland Mills Rd, in Columbia, Maryland, Guilford Elementary is a mid-sized elementary-level community that instructs 437 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within Howard County Public Schools.

Within Howard County Public Schools, which oversees 77 schools and 57,565 students, Guilford Elementary is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Guilford Elementary records that the largest single group is Black at 49%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder is composed of 20% Hispanic, 13% White, 12% Asian, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 20% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. An estimated 46% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Howard County runs at roughly 27%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Guilford Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 46.7%; this one delivers 40.3%.

In the surrounding community, Howard County reports that median household income runs about $149,763, 65% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Guilford Elementary is one of 78 public schools in Howard County (combined enrollment of about 57,565 students).

Guilford Park High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Guilford Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 40.3%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Guilford Elementary has decreased 3%, going from 450 students in 2018 to 437 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 14% to 20% across the same window.

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