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Oak Hill Elementary
Test scores
MCAP 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 3-4)What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 87 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 67 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 13 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 74% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 68% 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 Oak Hill Elementary
Set in Severna Park, Maryland, Oak Hill Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus, run under Anne Arundel County Public Schools. It teaches 628 students across grades K through 5. By comparison, Maryland's public schools average about 481 students each, so Oak Hill Elementary sits 31% above that benchmark.
Across the 125 schools in Anne Arundel County Public Schools (85,029 students total), Oak Hill Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
On the student-mix side, Oak Hill Elementary logs that 75% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 10% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 5% Asian, 4% Black. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 63%.
On the resource side, On paper, Oak Hill Elementary has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. An estimated 10% of students are eligible 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 south of typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Oak Hill Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 68.5%, the actual is 74.0%, a residual of +5.5 points.
In the broader community, census data for Anne Arundel County shows 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. Oak Hill Elementary is one of 129 public schools in Anne Arundel County (combined enrollment of about 85,074 students).
Severna Park High 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. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Oak Hill Elementary at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 71.0%.
The campus sits in a residential setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 9%: 691 students in 2018 compared to 628 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 4% to 10% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 18.3:1 in 2018 to 16.9:1 in 2025.
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