Marley Elementary

Set in Glen Burnie, Maryland, Marley Elementary is an average-sized elementary campus, one of the schools within Anne Arundel County Public Schools. It educates 618 students across grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 28% bigger than the state mean of about 481.

Anne Arundel County Public Schools runs 125 schools in total, collectively educating 85,029 students. Marley Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Marley Elementary lists that 36% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 31% Hispanic, 22% White, 7% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Anne Arundel County as a whole is about 18% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Marley Elementary shows 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Marley Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 72% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Anne Arundel County's rate of about 42%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Marley Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.8%, the actual is 35.0%, a residual of +3.3 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Anne Arundel County indicate median household earnings sit near $124,911, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Anne Arundel County's 129 public schools (combined enrollment of about 85,074 students), Marley Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Marley Glen School, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Marley Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Marley Elementary at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 33.9%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 27%: 846 students in 2018 compared to 618 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 32% to 22%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 today.

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