Nantucket Elementary

Located at 2350 Nantucket Dr, in Crofton, Maryland, Nantucket Elementary is a mid-tier elementary-level community that enrolls 675 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within Anne Arundel County Public Schools. Enrollment runs roughly 40% larger than the state mean of about 481.

Nantucket Elementary is one of 125 schools operated by Anne Arundel County Public Schools, a district that works with 85,029 students overall.

Demographically, Nantucket Elementary logs that 37% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder looks like 26% Black, 17% Asian, 13% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Anne Arundel County as a whole is about 63% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Nantucket Elementary has 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.1:1. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 28% of students at Nantucket Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Anne Arundel County (around 42%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Nantucket Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 57.7%; this one delivers 55.1%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Anne Arundel County put the typical household earns roughly $124,911 per year, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Nantucket Elementary is one of 129 public schools in Anne Arundel County (combined enrollment of about 85,074 students).

The closest other public school is Crofton Meadows Elementary, roughly 1.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Nantucket Elementary. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Nantucket Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 58.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Nantucket Elementary has shrank 15%, going from 791 students in 2018 to 675 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 47% to 37% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 in 2025.

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