Overlook Elementary

Overlook Elementary operates as a low-enrollment elementary campus in Linthicum, Maryland, overseen by Anne Arundel County Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 249 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Maryland's public schools average about 481 students each, so Overlook Elementary sits 48% below that benchmark.

Anne Arundel County Public Schools runs 125 schools in total, collectively educating 85,029 students. Overlook Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Overlook Elementary records that 45% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest consists of 27% Hispanic, 16% Black, 6% multiracial, 6% Asian. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 63%.

On the income-and-resources front, Overlook Elementary logs 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.4:1. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 62% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Anne Arundel County's rate of about 42%.

With demographic context factored in, Overlook Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.6%, the actual is 30.5%, a residual of -7.1 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Anne Arundel County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $124,911 per year, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Anne Arundel County runs 129 public schools (combined enrollment of about 85,074 students), of which Overlook Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Linthicum Elementary, around 0.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Overlook Elementary. On composite proficiency, Overlook Elementary comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 29.1%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Overlook Elementary has decreased 34%, going from 375 students in 2018 to 249 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 55% to 45% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 today.

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