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If you had an hour of school board time for Hickory Elementary, what would you bring up?
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Enrollment
635
Elementary
DISTRICT 537 · STATE 481
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HARFORD COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240039000698
Hickory Elementary
2100 Conowingo Rd, Bel Air, MD 21014 · (410) 638-4170 · Harford County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY22-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL635 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 71% of Maryland public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-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
15.9:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.3:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
25%
158 students
DISTRICT 41% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 90 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 93 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 110 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 111 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 113 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 118 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (90) is 24% smaller than its 5th grade class (118).
Student demographics
47%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 61% · 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
68.8%
MD avg 50.6% . +7.7pp since 2023
Math
66.1%
MD avg 34.8% . +8.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 69 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 66 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 68.8% | 66.1% |
| 2023-24 | 61.1% | 58.1% |
% 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
63.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
59.5%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% 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 Hickory Elementary
Hickory Elementary's state test result (63.5% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hickory Elementary this school | 635 | 24.9% | 63.5% |
| Mount Harmony Elementary Owings | 656 | 22.1% | 72.3% |
| Sandymount Elementary Finksburg | 640 | 28.0% | 65.8% |
| Sunderland Elementary Sunderland | 606 | 21.0% | 71.7% |
| Plum Point Elementary Huntingtown | 568 | 21.1% | 51.7% |
| Twin Ridge Elementary Mt Airy | 703 | 20.6% | 62.1% |
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 Hickory Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Harford County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 63.5% | #173 of 853 | #14 of 32 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 66.1% | #136 of 853 ▲ 63 | #11 of 32 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 68.8% | #162 of 853 ▲ 72 | #12 of 32 ▲ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 635 | #168 of 898 | #8 of 33 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.9:1 | #690 of 857 | #24 of 32 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 46.8% | #557 of 857 | #19 of 32 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 24.9% | #754 of 885 | #22 of 32 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.8% | #375 of 551 | #8 of 14 |
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
635
-8 (-1%) vs 2020
-24% since 1990-91, when it was 833
Student : Teacher
15.9:1
was 14.9:1
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 | 635 | 40 | 15.9:1 | 25% (158) |
| 2023-24 | 664 | 42.6 | 15.6:1 | 23% (155) |
| 2022-23 | 657 | 43.6 | 15.1:1 | 22% (143) |
| 2020-21 | 643 | 43 | 14.9:1 | 16% (103) |
| 2017-18 | 696 | 45.3 | 15.4:1 | 11% (77) |
| 2015-16 | 677 | 45 | 15.0:1 | 12% (84) |
| 2010-11 | 720 | 49 | 14.7:1 | 14% (103) |
| 2000-01 | 614 | 38 | 16.2:1 | 9% (56) |
| 1990-91 | 833 | 40 | 20.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hickory Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 9% (696 to 635); teachers down 12% (45.3 to 40).
About Hickory Elementary
Hickory Elementary is an elementary school located in Bel Air, Maryland, in Harford County. Federal data show 635 students enrolled in kindergarten through 5 in 2024-25. Across elementary schools in Maryland, the average enrollment is about 481.
Hickory Elementary is one school in Harford County Public Schools, a system of 55 schools with 37,771 students.
Federal enrollment data show Hickory Elementary is 71% White. Other groups include 9% multiracial, 9% Black, 7% Hispanic, and 4% Asian. In Harford County overall, the White share is about 73%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 47%.
There are about 15.9 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at Hickory Elementary, which has 40. Elementary schools in Maryland have an average ratio of 13.8:1. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 25%. On average, public schools in Harford County report 39%.
Among Maryland public elementary schools, Hickory Elementary outscored 71%, which works out to a B+ on the allk12 Grade.
Schools in Maryland with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 59.5%. Hickory Elementary scores 63.5%.
In the surrounding county, Harford County, the median household earns about $112,265 a year, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of people live in poverty. Harford County has 55 public schools with about 37,771 students, including Hickory Elementary.
Hickory Elementary's closest public school neighbor is C. Milton Wright High, about 1.6 miles away. The five-mile area around Hickory Elementary holds at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools average 62.0% on proficiency, and Hickory Elementary is above that at 63.5%.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Mid-size: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, enrollment moved from 643 to 635, a small change.
Parents, students, and staff can share information on special education services, counseling, and support programs here. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
Harford County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
263,757
Census ACS
Median income
$112,265
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
40%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
55
37,771 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Harford County Public Schools
- Edgewood HighHigh · 1,440 students
- Aberdeen HighHigh · 1,396 students
- Bel Air HighHigh · 1,341 students
- C. Milton Wright HighHigh · 1,291 students
- North Harford HighHigh · 1,204 students
- Southampton MiddleMiddle · 1,192 students
Other schools in Bel Air
- Bel Air HighHigh · 1,341 students
- C. Milton Wright HighHigh · 1,291 students
- Southampton MiddleMiddle · 1,192 students
- Bel Air MiddleMiddle · 1,080 students
- Homestead/Wakefield ElementaryElementary · 1,071 students
- Harford Technical HighHigh · 954 students
Other Hickory Elementary schools
4 other US public schools in 4 states are named Hickory Elementary. Hickory Elementary is the 3rd largest of the 5.
- Hickory ElementaryWilliamsport, MD · 326 students
- Hickory ElementaryTorrance, CA · 847 students
- Hickory ElementaryChesapeake, VA · 695 students
- Hickory Elementary SchoolAvon, IN · 589 students
Nearby schools
- C. Milton Wright High1.6 mi · 1,291
- Forest Lakes Elementary2.0 mi · 447
- Forest Hill Elementary2.0 mi · 451
- Southampton Middle2.4 mi · 1,192
- Bel Air Elementary2.8 mi · 521
- Red Pump Elementary School3.1 mi · 696
Frequently asked questions
About Hickory ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Hickory Elementary?
Hickory Elementary enrolls approximately 635 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Hickory Elementary serve?
Hickory Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many teachers does Hickory Elementary have?
Hickory Elementary employs 40 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.9:1.
What is the student diversity at Hickory Elementary?
Student demographics at Hickory Elementary are roughly 71% White, 7% Hispanic, 9% Black, 4% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Is Hickory Elementary public or private?
Hickory Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Harford County Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.