Meade Heights Elementary

As a mid-tier elementary school in Ft. Meade, Maryland, Meade Heights Elementary works with 494 students from grades pre-K through 5, operated by Anne Arundel County Public Schools.

Within Anne Arundel County Public Schools, which oversees 125 schools and 85,029 students, Meade Heights Elementary is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Meade Heights Elementary records that Black students make up the majority at 61%. The remainder breaks down as 18% Hispanic, 9% White, 7% multiracial, 5% Asian. By comparison, Anne Arundel County as a whole is about 18% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 66% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Anne Arundel County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Meade Heights Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.3%, the actual is 35.1%, a residual of -0.2 points.

In the area at large, census data for Anne Arundel County shows the typical household earns roughly $124,911 per year, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Anne Arundel County's 129 public schools (combined enrollment of about 85,074 students), Meade Heights Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Van Bokkelen Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Meade Heights Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 37.3%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Meade Heights Elementary has edged up 30%, going from 380 students in 2018 to 494 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 21% to 9% over that span.

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