Pershing Hill Elementary

Pershing Hill Elementary is a mid-sized elementary-level community in Ft Meade, Maryland, one of the schools within Anne Arundel County Public Schools. The school instructs 434 students in grades K through 5.

Pershing Hill Elementary is one of 125 schools operated by Anne Arundel County Public Schools, a district that instructs 85,029 students overall.

On demographics, Pershing Hill Elementary lists that the most-represented group is White (38%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 26% Black, 20% Hispanic, 14% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 63% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Pershing Hill Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. About 20% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is south of Anne Arundel County's rate of about 42%.

After controlling for student poverty, Pershing Hill Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 62.4%; this one delivers 56.5%.

In the area at large, census data for Anne Arundel County shows 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%. Across Anne Arundel County's 129 public schools (combined enrollment of about 85,074 students), Pershing Hill Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: MacArthur Middle, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Pershing Hill Elementary comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 34.6%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Five-year trend. Pershing Hill Elementary's enrollment has contracted 27% since 2018, when it stood at 591 (now 434). White enrollment moved from 48% to 38% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.