Mayo Elementary
Test scores
MCAP 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 3-4)What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 47 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Maryland schools, those numbers are about 51 and 35. Reading and writing scores are down about 6 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 23 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 64% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Mayo Elementary
Mayo Elementary, a small K-5 school in Edgewater, Maryland, operated by Anne Arundel County Public Schools, instructs 351 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Maryland's public schools average about 481 students each, so Mayo Elementary sits 27% leaner than that benchmark.
Anne Arundel County Public Schools runs 125 schools in total, collectively educating 85,029 students. Mayo Elementary is one of those campuses.
On demographics, Mayo Elementary shows that nearly all students (84%) are White. Beyond that, the school shows 9% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 63% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.
In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Around 17% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Anne Arundel County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Mayo Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.9%, the actual is 64.0%, a residual of +0.1 points.
Zooming out to the county, Anne Arundel County reports that median household income runs about $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), Mayo Elementary is one campus in the mix.
Central Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mayo Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Mayo Elementary at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 58.3%.
The school occupies a residential site.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 4%: 338 students in 2018 compared to 351 in 2025.
Inside the community feed, members of the Mayo Elementary community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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