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Enrollment
579
Elementary
DISTRICT 537 · STATE 481
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HARFORD COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240039000712
Prospect Mill Elementary
101 Prospect Mill Rd, Bel Air, MD 21015 · (410) 638-3817 · Harford County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL579 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 86% 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.
- A-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
14.5:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.3:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
33%
192 students
DISTRICT 41% · 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 | 33 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 75 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 106 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 83 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 93 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 89 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 100 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (75) is 25% smaller than its 5th grade class (100).
Student demographics
55%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 61% · 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
78.3%
MD avg 50.6% . +10.9pp since 2023
Math
52.1%
MD avg 34.8% . -15.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 78 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 52 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 11 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 15 points.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 78.3% | 52.1% |
| 2023-24 | 67.4% | 67.4% |
% 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
66.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.6%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+11.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 55% 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 Prospect Mill Elementary
Prospect Mill Elementary's state test result (66.3% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prospect Mill Elementary this school | 579 | 33.2% | 66.3% |
| Leonardtown Elementary Leonardtown | 509 | 32.4% | 50.0% |
| Windy Hill Elementary Owings | 598 | 30.6% | 66.0% |
| Hampton Elementary Lutherville | 555 | 33.3% | 57.0% |
| Bel Air Elementary Bel Air | 521 | 31.3% | 72.7% |
| William S. James Elementary Abingdon | 463 | 29.2% | 57.1% |
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 Prospect Mill Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Harford County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 66.3% | #134 of 853 | #12 of 32 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 52.1% | #273 of 853 ▼ 166 | #16 of 32 ▼ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 78.3% | #68 of 853 ▲ 88 | #3 of 32 ▲ 9 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 579 | #239 of 898 | #11 of 33 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.5:1 | #507 of 857 | #16 of 32 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.2% | #451 of 857 | #16 of 32 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 33.2% | #683 of 885 | #16 of 32 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +2.3% | #248 of 294 | #13 of 18 |
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
579
+13 (+2%) vs 2020
-35% since 1990-91, when it was 885
Student : Teacher
14.5:1
was 15.3:1
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 | 579 | 40 | 14.5:1 | 33% (192) |
| 2023-24 | 592 | 41.9 | 14.2:1 | 29% (172) |
| 2022-23 | 587 | 40.4 | 14.6:1 | 28% (166) |
| 2020-21 | 566 | 37 | 15.3:1 | 23% (132) |
| 2017-18 | 566 | 36.1 | 15.7:1 | 22% (124) |
| 2015-16 | 587 | 33 | 17.8:1 | 24% (139) |
| 2010-11 | 902 | 60 | 15.0:1 | 17% (151) |
| 2000-01 | 879 | 48 | 18.3:1 | 4% (38) |
| 1990-91 | 885 | 41 | 21.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Prospect Mill Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 2% (566 to 579); teachers up 11% (36.1 to 40).
About Prospect Mill Elementary
Prospect Mill Elementary is an elementary school in Bel Air, Maryland, reachable at (410) 638-3817. It offers pre-K through 5 and has 579 students enrolled. It has 20% more students than the average for elementary schools in Maryland (about 481).
The Harford County Public Schools system has 55 schools and 37,771 students.
About 64% of the student body at Prospect Mill Elementary is White. Enrollment also includes 11% Black, 10% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, and 7% Asian. Among people living in Harford County, the White share is about 73%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 55%.
Prospect Mill Elementary has a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.5:1, with 40 full-time-equivalent teachers. The ratio is within a point of the 13.8:1 average for elementary schools in Maryland. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 33% at Prospect Mill Elementary.
On the allk12 Grade, Prospect Mill Elementary lands at A, ahead of 86% of Maryland public elementary schools.
Prospect Mill Elementary posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 66.3%, compared with a predicted 54.6%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Maryland schools on BeatsExpectations.
Looking at the county, Harford County, the median household earns about $112,265 a year, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Prospect Mill Elementary, Harford County has 55 public schools.
The closest school to Prospect Mill Elementary is Harford Academy at Campus Hills, located about 0.3 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Prospect Mill Elementary at 4th of 8.
For locale, NCES codes Prospect Mill Elementary as Rural: Fringe.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, enrollment moved from 566 to 579, a small change.
Prospect Mill Elementary has a community page on allk12 for topics such as pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. You can also rate the school on this page.
Harford County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
263,757
Census ACS
Median income
$112,265
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
40%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
55
37,771 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Harford County Public Schools
- Edgewood HighHigh · 1,440 students
- Aberdeen HighHigh · 1,396 students
- Bel Air HighHigh · 1,341 students
- C. Milton Wright HighHigh · 1,291 students
- North Harford HighHigh · 1,204 students
- Southampton MiddleMiddle · 1,192 students
Other schools in Bel Air
- Bel Air HighHigh · 1,341 students
- C. Milton Wright HighHigh · 1,291 students
- Southampton MiddleMiddle · 1,192 students
- Bel Air MiddleMiddle · 1,080 students
- Homestead/Wakefield ElementaryElementary · 1,071 students
- Harford Technical HighHigh · 954 students
Nearby schools
- Harford Academy at Campus Hills0.3 mi · 141
- Harford Technical High0.3 mi · 954
- Fountain Green Elementary1.2 mi · 443
- C. Milton Wright High2.0 mi · 1,291
- Southampton Middle2.2 mi · 1,192
- Churchville Elementary2.5 mi · 364
Frequently asked questions
About Prospect Mill ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Prospect Mill Elementary?
Prospect Mill Elementary enrolls approximately 579 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Prospect Mill Elementary serve?
Prospect Mill Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does Prospect Mill Elementary have?
Prospect Mill Elementary employs 40 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.5:1.
What is the student diversity at Prospect Mill Elementary?
Student demographics at Prospect Mill Elementary are roughly 64% White, 7% Hispanic, 11% Black, 7% Asian, 10% Two or more.
What district is Prospect Mill Elementary in?
Prospect Mill Elementary is part of Harford County Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.