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Enrollment
538
Elementary
DISTRICT 471 · STATE 481
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240006002944
Piney Orchard Elementary
2641 Strawberry Lake Way, Odenton, MD 21113 · (410) 672-7591 · Anne Arundel County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL538 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 67% of Maryland public elementary schools
- A-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
14.2:1
38 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.1:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
28%
150 students
DISTRICT 46% · STATE 54%
Community
5
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 | 37 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 64 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 79 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 86 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 87 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 84 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 101 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (64) is 37% smaller than its 5th grade class (101).
Student demographics
73%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · 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
67.3%
MD avg 50.6% . -7.9pp since 2023
Math
48.8%
MD avg 34.8% . -3.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 49 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Maryland schools, those numbers are about 51 and 35. Reading and writing scores are down about 8 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 67.3% | 48.8% |
| 2023-24 | 75.2% | 52.1% |
% 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
60.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.7%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 58% 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 Piney Orchard Elementary
Piney Orchard Elementary's state test result (60.9% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Piney Orchard Elementary this school | 538 | 27.9% | 60.9% |
| Waugh Chapel Elementary Odenton | 549 | 29.9% | 60.4% |
| Ridgeway Elementary Severn | 551 | 33.0% | 49.5% |
| Crofton Meadows Elementary Crofton | 544 | 24.1% | 52.5% |
| Yellow Springs Elementary Frederick | 628 | 32.0% | 57.0% |
| Clemens Crossing Elementary Columbia | 481 | 23.7% | 68.2% |
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 Piney Orchard Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Anne Arundel County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 60.9% | #207 of 853 | #20 of 80 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 48.8% | #311 of 853 ▼ 49 | #30 of 80 ▼ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 67.3% | #179 of 853 ▼ 97 | #26 of 80 ▼ 18 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 538 | #303 of 898 | #31 of 84 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.2:1 | #473 of 857 | #52 of 81 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 73.1% | #77 of 857 | #7 of 81 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 27.9% | #729 of 885 | #55 of 83 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.7% | #209 of 551 | #17 of 49 |
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
538
-270 (-33%) vs 2020
+25% since 2000-01, when it was 431
Student : Teacher
14.2:1
was 17.6:1
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 | 538 | 37.8 | 14.2:1 | 28% (150) |
| 2023-24 | 955 | 61.8 | 15.4:1 | 16% (156) |
| 2022-23 | 966 | 61.4 | 15.7:1 | 18% (173) |
| 2020-21 | 808 | 46 | 17.6:1 | 15% (119) |
| 2017-18 | 638 | 35.8 | 17.8:1 | 11% (72) |
| 2015-16 | 675 | 37 | 18.2:1 | 12% (82) |
| 2010-11 | 601 | 36 | 16.7:1 | 12% (71) |
| 2000-01 | 431 | 20 | 21.6:1 | 6% (26) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Piney Orchard Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 16% (638 to 538); teachers up 6% (35.8 to 37.8).
About Piney Orchard Elementary
Families in Odenton, Maryland, are served by Piney Orchard Elementary, a medium-sized elementary school. A total of 538 students attend the school, which covers pre-K through 5.
Anne Arundel County Public Schools runs Piney Orchard Elementary along with 124 other schools, enrolling 85,029 students in total.
Piney Orchard Elementary's enrollment has no majority group, and White students are the largest at 40%. After that, the student body is 26% Black, 16% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, and 8% Asian. Among all residents of Anne Arundel County, the White share is about 63%. By the diversity index, Piney Orchard Elementary comes in at 73%.
The school reported 37.8 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25 and a ratio of 14.2:1. Elementary schools in Maryland average about 13.8:1, a similar figure. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 28%. Among public schools in Anne Arundel County, the average eligibility rate is 42%.
The allk12 Grade for Piney Orchard Elementary is B+. Compared with Maryland public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 67% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Schools in Maryland with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 57.7%. Piney Orchard Elementary scores 60.9%.
Federal survey data for Anne Arundel County show that median household income is about $124,911, roughly 46% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 4%. Piney Orchard Elementary is among the 129 public schools in Anne Arundel County.
Waugh Chapel Elementary is the public school closest to Piney Orchard Elementary, about 1.2 miles away. Piney Orchard Elementary has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Piney Orchard Elementary's average proficiency of 60.9% compares with 51.3% for its nearest scored neighbors.
Federal data place Piney Orchard Elementary in the Suburb: Large locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Piney Orchard Elementary had 808 students in 2020-21 and 538 in 2024-25, a 33% decrease. The ratio was 17.6:1 in 2020-21 and 14.2:1 in 2024-25.
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Anne Arundel County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
598,166
Census ACS
Median income
$124,911
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
46%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
129
85,074 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Anne Arundel County Public Schools
- Glen Burnie HighHigh · 2,226 students
- North County HighHigh · 2,161 students
- Broadneck HighHigh · 2,143 students
- Annapolis HighHigh · 2,075 students
- Meade HighHigh · 2,045 students
- Crofton High SchoolHigh · 1,906 students
Other schools in Odenton
- Arundel MiddleMiddle · 1,312 students
- Odenton ElementaryElementary · 587 students
- Two Rivers Elementary SchoolElementary · 562 students
- Waugh Chapel ElementaryElementary · 549 students
- Seven Oaks ElementaryElementary · 506 students
Nearby schools
- Waugh Chapel Elementary1.2 mi · 549
- Four Seasons Elementary1.4 mi · 667
- Arundel Middle1.9 mi · 1,312
- Odenton Elementary1.9 mi · 587
- Arundel High2.1 mi · 1,778
- Two Rivers Elementary School2.2 mi · 562
Frequently asked questions
About Piney Orchard ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Piney Orchard Elementary?
Piney Orchard Elementary enrolls approximately 538 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Piney Orchard Elementary serve?
Piney Orchard Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Piney Orchard Elementary?
Approximately 14.2:1 students per teacher at Piney Orchard Elementary.
How diverse is Piney Orchard Elementary?
Piney Orchard Elementary reports a student body of 40% White, 16% Hispanic, 26% Black, 8% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Who oversees Piney Orchard Elementary?
Piney Orchard Elementary is overseen by Anne Arundel County Public Schools in Anne Arundel County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.