Ridge Elementary

Ridge Elementary is one of the low-enrollment elementary schools in Ridge, Maryland, overseen by St. Mary's County Public Schools, with 209 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Maryland's public schools average about 481 students each, so Ridge Elementary sits 57% leaner than that benchmark.

St. Mary's County Public Schools comprises 26 schools with combined enrollment of 16,905 students; Ridge Elementary is among them.

Demographically, Ridge Elementary shows that the largest single group is White, at 70% of enrollment; the rest reads as 17% multiracial, 8% Black, 4% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 55% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above St. Mary's County's rate of about 41%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Ridge Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 41.9%; this one delivers 43.9%.

In the area at large, census data for St. Mary's County shows median household income runs about $119,446, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, St. Mary's County runs 28 public schools (combined enrollment of about 16,905 students), of which Ridge Elementary is one.

Spring Ridge Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 7.3 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Ridge Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 39.9%.

Ridge Elementary operates from a rural location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 20%: 262 students in 2018 compared to 209 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 9% to 4% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 in 2025.

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