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Enrollment
830
Elementary
DISTRICT 471 · STATE 481
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240006001724
Monarch Global Academy PCS Laurel Campus
430 Brock Bridge Road, Laurel, MD 20724 · (301) 886-8648 · Anne Arundel County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL830 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 55% of Maryland public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
13.4:1
62 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.1:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
57%
475 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 | 68 | 8% |
| Grade 1 | 88 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 90 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 97 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 97 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 100 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 99 | 12% |
| Grade 7 | 94 | 11% |
| Grade 8 | 97 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (68) is 30% smaller than its 8th grade class (97).
Student demographics
61%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
57.6%
MD avg 50.6% . +9.1pp since 2023
Math
38.0%
MD avg 34.8% . -0.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 58 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 38 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 9 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 57.6% | 38.0% |
| 2023-24 | 48.5% | 38.7% |
% 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
45.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.4%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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 Monarch Global Academy PCS Laurel Campus
Monarch Global Academy PCS Laurel Campus's state test result (45.7% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monarch Global Academy PCS Laurel Campus this school | 830 | 57.2% | 45.7% |
| Galway Elementary Silver Spring | 695 | 58.6% | 46.5% |
| Greencastle Elementary Silver Spring | 722 | 60.4% | 29.3% |
| Arthur Middleton Elementary School Waldorf | 774 | 48.8% | 34.5% |
| Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer Elementary School Waldorf | 661 | 59.9% | 26.1% |
| J. C. Parks Elementary School Indian Head | 653 | 59.7% | 34.2% |
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 Monarch Global Academy PCS Laurel Campus ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Anne Arundel County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 45.7% | #401 of 853 | #43 of 80 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 38.0% | #462 of 853 ▼ 40 | #48 of 80 ▼ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 57.6% | #325 of 853 ▲ 59 | #37 of 80 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 830 | #34 of 898 | #1 of 84 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.4:1 | #353 of 857 | #43 of 81 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 60.9% | #362 of 857 | #44 of 81 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 57.2% | #452 of 885 | #34 of 83 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +0.5% | #287 of 294 | #31 of 32 |
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
830
+2 (+0%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
13.4:1
was 13.8:1
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 | 830 | 61.8 | 13.4:1 | 57% (475) |
| 2023-24 | 832 | 61.8 | 13.5:1 | 52% (435) |
| 2022-23 | 830 | 60.8 | 13.7:1 | 53% (437) |
| 2020-21 | 828 | 60 | 13.8:1 | 43% (356) |
| 2017-18 | 826 | 53.6 | 15.4:1 | 31% (258) |
| 2015-16 | 701 | 42 | 16.7:1 | 30% (208) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Monarch Global Academy PCS Laurel Campus.
Since 2017-18: students unchanged (826 to 830); teachers up 15% (53.6 to 61.8).
About Monarch Global Academy PCS Laurel Campus
Monarch Global Academy PCS Laurel Campus is a large elementary school that serves part of Laurel, Maryland. Students in kindergarten through 8 attend the school, which enrolls 830 students. The average among elementary schools in Maryland is roughly 481 students; this school is 73% bigger than that.
Monarch Global Academy PCS Laurel Campus is part of a district of 125 schools: Anne Arundel County Public Schools, with 85,029 students.
Monarch Global Academy PCS Laurel Campus is 55% Black by enrollment. Beyond that, enrollment is 27% Hispanic, 8% White, 5% Asian, and 4% multiracial. In Anne Arundel County overall, about 18% of residents are Black. Pick two students at random and there is a 61% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The school's student-to-teacher ratio is about 13.4:1, with 61.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. For comparison, elementary schools in Maryland average 13.8:1. Lunch subsidy eligibility at Monarch Global Academy PCS Laurel Campus is 57%. Across public schools in Anne Arundel County, the average is 42%.
The allk12 Grade for Monarch Global Academy PCS Laurel Campus is B. Compared with Maryland public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 55% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Monarch Global Academy PCS Laurel Campus would score about 40.4%. It scores 45.7%, 5.3 points above that figure.
Federal survey data for Anne Arundel County show that the median household income is $124,911, roughly 46% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. There are 129 public schools in Anne Arundel County, enrolling about 85,074 students in all.
The school nearest to Monarch Global Academy PCS Laurel Campus is Brock Bridge Elementary, at a distance of about 0.2 miles. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. On average proficiency, Monarch Global Academy PCS Laurel Campus is 1st of 8 nearby schools with test data.
Federal data place Monarch Global Academy PCS Laurel Campus in the Suburb: Large locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment was essentially flat over 4 years: 828 in 2020-21, 830 in 2024-25.
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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 Laurel
- Laurel HighHigh · 2,129 students
- Chesapeake Math and IT Public CharterCombined · 1,681 students
- Dwight D. Eisenhower MiddleMiddle · 1,047 students
- Hammond ElementaryElementary · 763 students
- Gorman Crossing ElementaryElementary · 750 students
- Forest Ridge ElementaryElementary · 659 students
Nearby schools
- Brock Bridge Elementary0.2 mi · 514
- Maryland City Elementary0.8 mi · 450
- Oaklands Elementary1.4 mi · 483
- Deerfield Run Elementary1.6 mi · 482
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Middle1.7 mi · 1,047
- Laurel Elementary2.0 mi · 472
Frequently asked questions
About Monarch Global Academy PCS Laurel CampusHow many students attend Monarch Global Academy PCS Laurel Campus?
Monarch Global Academy PCS Laurel Campus enrolls approximately 830 students in grades KG-08.
What grades does Monarch Global Academy PCS Laurel Campus serve?
Monarch Global Academy PCS Laurel Campus serves grades KG-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Monarch Global Academy PCS Laurel Campus?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Monarch Global Academy PCS Laurel Campus is approximately 13.4:1 (62 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Monarch Global Academy PCS Laurel Campus?
Student demographics at Monarch Global Academy PCS Laurel Campus are roughly 8% White, 27% Hispanic, 55% Black, 5% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Monarch Global Academy PCS Laurel Campus?
Monarch Global Academy PCS Laurel Campus is overseen by Anne Arundel County Public Schools in Anne Arundel County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.