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If you had an hour of school board time for Hilltop Elementary, what would you bring up?
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Enrollment
521
Elementary
DISTRICT 471 · STATE 481
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240006000081
Hilltop Elementary
415 Melrose Ave, Glen Burnie, MD 21061 · (410) 424-2400 · Anne Arundel County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL521 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 26% 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
11.2:1
46 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.1:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
81%
424 students
DISTRICT 46% · 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 | 81 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 69 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 91 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 82 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 94 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 104 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (81) is 22% smaller than its 5th grade class (104).
Student demographics
73%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · 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
31.8%
MD avg 50.6% . +2.7pp since 2023
Math
24.5%
MD avg 34.8% . +1.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 32 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 25 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 31.8% | 24.5% |
| 2023-24 | 29.1% | 23.1% |
% 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
27.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
26.1%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 27% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 26% 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 Hilltop Elementary
Hilltop Elementary's state test result (27.1% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hilltop Elementary this school | 521 | 81.4% | 27.1% |
| Maple Elementary School Cambridge | 483 | 79.7% | 32.4% |
| Glen Burnie Park Elementary Glen Burnie | 555 | 76.8% | 39.0% |
| Middlesex Elementary Baltimore | 448 | 80.4% | 25.0% |
| Sussex Elementary Baltimore | 475 | 78.9% | 27.5% |
| Lincoln Elementary Frederick | 615 | 81.0% | 46.3% |
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 Hilltop Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Anne Arundel County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 27.1% | #680 of 853 | #71 of 80 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 24.5% | #671 of 853 ▼ 21 | #71 of 80 ▼ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 31.8% | #699 of 853 ▼ 25 | #76 of 80 ▼ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 521 | #335 of 898 | #33 of 84 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.2:1 | #98 of 857 | #20 of 81 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 72.5% | #99 of 857 | #12 of 81 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 81.4% | #173 of 885 | #11 of 83 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -26.4% | #88 of 551 | #6 of 49 |
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
521
-49 (-9%) vs 2020
-17% since 1990-91, when it was 630
Student : Teacher
11.2:1
was 11.4:1
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 | 521 | 46.4 | 11.2:1 | 81% (424) |
| 2023-24 | 533 | 47.6 | 11.2:1 | 80% (428) |
| 2022-23 | 535 | 46 | 11.6:1 | 83% (442) |
| 2020-21 | 570 | 50 | 11.4:1 | 80% (457) |
| 2017-18 | 708 | 51.1 | 13.9:1 | 77% (543) |
| 2015-16 | 699 | 49 | 14.3:1 | 81% (566) |
| 2010-11 | 530 | 41 | 12.9:1 | 70% (371) |
| 2000-01 | 615 | 37 | 16.6:1 | 44% (272) |
| 1990-91 | 630 | 30 | 21.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hilltop Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 26% (708 to 521); teachers down 9% (51.1 to 46.4).
About Hilltop Elementary
Students in Glen Burnie, Maryland, attend Hilltop Elementary, a medium-sized elementary school. Grades offered run from kindergarten through 5, with 521 students enrolled.
Anne Arundel County Public Schools has a total of 125 schools and 85,029 students, Hilltop Elementary among them.
No single group makes up more than half of enrollment at Hilltop Elementary. The largest is Black students, at 36%. The remaining shares are 30% Hispanic, 22% White, 8% multiracial, and 3% Asian. Census estimates put the Black share of Anne Arundel County's population at about 18%. Pick two students at random and there is a 73% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Teachers at Hilltop Elementary total 46.4 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 11.2:1. That is 2.6 students per teacher below the 13.8:1 average for elementary schools in Maryland. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 81%. Among public schools in Anne Arundel County, the average eligibility rate is 42%.
Measured against Maryland public elementary schools, Hilltop Elementary receives a C. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Hilltop Elementary falls in the middle 80% of Maryland schools: 27.1% actual against 26.1% predicted.
Census Bureau estimates for Anne Arundel County show that the median household income is $124,911, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 46%, and roughly 4% of residents are in poverty. Hilltop Elementary is one of 129 public schools in the county.
Nearest public school: North County High, about 0.2 miles away. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Local comparison: Hilltop Elementary ranks 8th of 8 nearby schools, at 27.1% versus a 34.7% average.
Its location is classified as Suburb: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics.
2024-25 enrollment was 521, a 9% decrease from 570 in 2020-21.
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Anne Arundel County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
598,166
Census ACS
Median income
$124,911
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
46%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
129
85,074 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Anne Arundel County Public Schools
- Glen Burnie HighHigh · 2,226 students
- North County HighHigh · 2,161 students
- Broadneck HighHigh · 2,143 students
- Annapolis HighHigh · 2,075 students
- Meade HighHigh · 2,045 students
- Crofton High SchoolHigh · 1,906 students
Other schools in Glen Burnie
- Glen Burnie HighHigh · 2,226 students
- North County HighHigh · 2,161 students
- Marley MiddleMiddle · 991 students
- Rippling Woods ElementaryElementary · 702 students
- Monarch AcademyElementary · 687 students
- Solley ElementaryElementary · 674 students
Other Hilltop Elementary schools
17 other US public schools in 11 states are named Hilltop Elementary. Hilltop Elementary is the 6th largest of the 18.
- Hilltop Elementary SchoolARGYLE, TX · 788 students
- HILLTOP ELEMENTARYINVER GROVE HEIGHTS, MN · 626 students
- Hilltop Elementary SchoolBonaire, GA · 590 students
- Hilltop ElementaryLYNNWOOD, WA · 562 students
- Hilltop Elementary SchoolAZLE, TX · 537 students
Nearby schools
- North County High0.2 mi · 2,161
- George T. Cromwell Elementary0.5 mi · 395
- Ferndale Early Education Center0.6 mi · 130
- North Glen Elementary0.6 mi · 278
- Linthicum Elementary1.3 mi · 509
- Lindale Middle1.5 mi · 884
Frequently asked questions
About Hilltop ElementaryHow many students attend Hilltop Elementary?
Hilltop Elementary enrolls approximately 521 students in grades KG-05.
Is Hilltop Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Hilltop Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Hilltop Elementary have?
Hilltop Elementary employs 46 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.2:1.
How diverse is Hilltop Elementary?
Hilltop Elementary reports a student body of 22% White, 30% Hispanic, 36% Black, 3% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees Hilltop Elementary?
Hilltop Elementary is overseen by Anne Arundel County Public Schools in Anne Arundel County.
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