Enrollment
291
Elementary
DISTRICT 419 · STATE 481
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ST. MARY'S COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240060001233
Oakville Elementary
26410 Three Notch Road, Mechanicsville, MD 20659 · (301) 373-4365 · St. Mary's County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL291 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 72% 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.
- B+Beats 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
14.6:1
20 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.7:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
43%
125 students
DISTRICT 43% · STATE 54%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 26 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 47 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 48 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 41 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 35 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 50 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 44 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (47) is 7% larger than its 5th grade class (44).
Student demographics
45%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 60% · 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
65.0%
MD avg 50.6% . +18.0pp since 2023
Math
68.9%
MD avg 34.8% . +21.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 65 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 69 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 18 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 22 points.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 65.0% | 68.9% |
| 2023-24 | 47.0% | 47.0% |
% 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
57.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.8%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 57% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% 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 Oakville Elementary
Oakville Elementary's state test result (57.0% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oakville Elementary this school | 291 | 43.0% | 57.0% |
| Charlestown Elementary Charlestown | 305 | 43.0% | 52.3% |
| St. Michaels Elementary St Michaels | 332 | 47.9% | 47.0% |
| Leeds Elementary Elkton | 284 | 47.2% | 52.9% |
| New Midway/Woodsboro Elementary Keymar | 269 | 47.2% | 69.5% |
| Fountain Rock Elementary Hagerstown | 319 | 48.0% | 53.1% |
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 Oakville Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In St. Mary's County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 57.0% | #256 of 853 | #5 of 19 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 68.9% | #103 of 853 ▲ 221 | #2 of 19 ▲ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 65.0% | #213 of 853 ▲ 197 | #4 of 19 ▲ 10 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 291 | #763 of 898 | #15 of 19 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.6:1 | #527 of 857 | #10 of 19 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 45.3% | #580 of 857 | #14 of 19 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 43.0% | #587 of 885 | #8 of 19 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +9.0% | #146 of 294 | N/A |
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
291
+22 (+8%) vs 2020
-40% since 1990-91, when it was 485
Student : Teacher
14.6:1
was 15.8:1
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 | 291 | 19.9 | 14.6:1 | 43% (125) |
| 2023-24 | 307 | 19 | 16.2:1 | 42% (128) |
| 2022-23 | 258 | 18 | 14.4:1 | 45% (115) |
| 2020-21 | 269 | 17 | 15.8:1 | 30% (82) |
| 2017-18 | 267 | 17.1 | 15.7:1 | 33% (89) |
| 2015-16 | 289 | 17 | 17.0:1 | 31% (90) |
| 2010-11 | 332 | 21 | 15.8:1 | 26% (86) |
| 2000-01 | 483 | 25 | 19.3:1 | 20% (96) |
| 1990-91 | 485 | 24 | 20.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Oakville Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 9% (267 to 291); teachers up 17% (17.1 to 19.9).
About Oakville Elementary
Oakville Elementary is a small elementary school in Maryland, located in Mechanicsville. The school teaches pre-K through 5 and enrolls 291 students. That is 40% below the average of about 481 students for elementary schools in Maryland.
Oakville Elementary is a school in St. Mary's County Public Schools. The district has 26 schools and 16,905 students.
The student body at Oakville Elementary is 72% White. Other reported shares: 10% Black, 10% multiracial, and 7% Hispanic. Among St. Mary's County residents, the White share is about 71%. A diversity index of 45% means there is a 45% chance two randomly chosen students at Oakville Elementary are from different groups.
The school's 19.9 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.6:1. The average for elementary schools in Maryland is 13.8:1, so this school has more students per teacher. At Oakville Elementary, 43% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. That is in line with the 41% average for public schools in St. Mary's County.
Among Maryland public elementary schools, Oakville Elementary outscored 72%, which works out to a B+ on the allk12 Grade.
Oakville Elementary's average proficiency rate across its state test results of 57.0% is 8.2 points above the 48.8% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
In the surrounding county, St. Mary's County, the median household earns about $119,446 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 37%, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. St. Mary's County has 28 public schools with about 16,905 students, including Oakville Elementary.
Oakville Elementary's nearest public school is Margaret Brent Middle (about 3.9 miles). Inside a five-mile radius, there are 3 other public schools. Ranked by average proficiency, Oakville Elementary places 4th out of 9 schools in its immediate area.
The NCES locale for Oakville Elementary is Rural: Distant, which covers schools in rural territory some distance from an urban area.
Federal enrollment counts increased from 269 (2020-21) to 291 (2024-25). Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio dropped to 14.6:1, from 15.8:1.
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St. Mary's County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
115,126
Census ACS
Median income
$119,446
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
37%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
28
16,905 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in St. Mary's County Public Schools
- Leonardtown HighHigh · 2,118 students
- Great Mills HighHigh · 1,697 students
- Chopticon HighHigh · 1,526 students
- Leonardtown MiddleMiddle · 969 students
- Spring Ridge MiddleMiddle · 913 students
- Margaret Brent MiddleMiddle · 878 students
Other schools in Mechanicsville
- Margaret Brent MiddleMiddle · 878 students
- Lettie Marshall Dent ElemElementary · 479 students
- Mechanicsville ElementaryElementary · 273 students
- White Marsh ElementaryElementary · 220 students
Other Oakville Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Oakville Elementary. Oakville Elementary is the 2nd largest of the 3.
- OAKVILLE ELEM.ST LOUIS, MO · 375 students
- Oakville ElementaryOAKVILLE, WA · 157 students
Nearby schools
- Margaret Brent Middle3.9 mi · 878
- Chopticon High4.0 mi · 1,526
- Benjamin Banneker Elementary4.7 mi · 543
- Captain Walter Francis Duke Elementary5.6 mi · 516
- Leonardtown Elementary6.8 mi · 509
- Hollywood Elementary6.9 mi · 414
Frequently asked questions
About Oakville ElementaryHow large is Oakville Elementary?
Oakville Elementary enrolls approximately 291 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Oakville Elementary serve?
Oakville Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Oakville Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Oakville Elementary is approximately 14.6:1 (20 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Oakville Elementary?
At Oakville Elementary, the student body is approximately 72% White, 7% Hispanic, 10% Black, 0% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Is Oakville Elementary public or private?
Oakville Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by St. Mary's County Public Schools.
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