Rippling Woods Elementary

Set in Glen Burnie, Maryland, Rippling Woods Elementary is a reasonably sized K-5 school, overseen by Anne Arundel County Public Schools. It educates 702 students across grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 46% bigger than the typical public school in Maryland, which averages around 481 students.

Anne Arundel County Public Schools runs 125 schools in total, collectively educating 85,029 students. Rippling Woods Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Rippling Woods Elementary logs that the most-represented group is Black (41%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 26% White, 22% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 4% Asian. By comparison, Anne Arundel County as a whole is about 18% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Rippling Woods Elementary logs 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.7:1. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 66% of students at Rippling Woods Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Anne Arundel County's rate of about 42%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Rippling Woods Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 35.2%; this one delivers 31.0%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Anne Arundel County) records that median household earnings sit near $124,911, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Anne Arundel County's 129 public schools (combined enrollment of about 85,074 students), Rippling Woods Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Old Mill Middle North is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Rippling Woods Elementary comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 34.9%.

Rippling Woods Elementary operates from a residential location.

Five-year trend. Rippling Woods Elementary's enrollment has climbed 7% since 2018, when it stood at 655 (now 702). White enrollment moved from 36% to 26% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 in 2025.

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