Ridgely Elementary School

Ridgely Elementary School operates as a reasonably sized elementary campus in Ridgely, Maryland, run under Caroline County Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 433 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Caroline County Public Schools runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 5,648 students. Ridgely Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Ridgely Elementary School logs that 69% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school shows 12% Hispanic, 11% Black, 7% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Roughly 60% of students at Ridgely Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Ridgely Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 39.0%; this one delivers 42.0%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Caroline County put the typical household earns roughly $68,457 per year, 16% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Caroline County's 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,648 students), Ridgely Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

North Caroline High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.8 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Ridgely Elementary School at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 44.2%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Ridgely Elementary School has contracted 11%, going from 487 students in 2018 to 433 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 today.

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