Pangborn Elementary

As a substantial elementary school in Hagerstown, Maryland, Pangborn Elementary enrolls 749 students from grades pre-K through 5, part of Washington County Public Schools. By comparison, Maryland's public schools average about 481 students each, so Pangborn Elementary sits 56% bigger than that benchmark.

Within Washington County Public Schools, which oversees 43 schools and 23,320 students, Pangborn Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Pangborn Elementary reports that the largest single group is White at 35%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school reports 28% Hispanic, 23% Black, 13% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 75%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.4:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 76% of students at Pangborn Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Washington County's rate of about 58%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Pangborn Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 29.3%; this one delivers 35.4%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Washington County) logs that median household income runs about $77,747, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Washington County's 44 public schools (combined enrollment of about 23,320 students), Pangborn Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Eastern Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Pangborn Elementary. On composite proficiency, Pangborn Elementary comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 40.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Pangborn Elementary has showed little movement, going from 732 students in 2018 to 749 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 21% to 28% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 in 2025.

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