Maple Elementary School

Maple Elementary School is one of the mid-sized elementary schools in Cambridge, Maryland, one of the schools within Dorchester County Public Schools, with 483 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Dorchester County Public Schools comprises 11 schools with combined enrollment of 4,586 students; Maple Elementary School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Maple Elementary School reports that the most-represented group is Black (38%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest consists of 33% Hispanic, 20% White, 8% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 25%.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Around 80% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Maple Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.1%, the actual is 32.4%, a residual of +5.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Dorchester County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $61,839 per year, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Dorchester County's 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,586 students), Maple Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Cambridge-South Dorchester High School, roughly 0.4 miles away. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Maple Elementary School comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 39.7%.

Maple Elementary School operates from a town-center location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count showed little movement: 488 students in 2018 compared to 483 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 11% to 33% over that span. Class-load math has widened: from 10.6:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 in 2025.

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