Rock Hall Elementary

Set in Rock Hall, Maryland, Rock Hall Elementary is a low-enrollment elementary campus, part of Kent County Public Schools. It instructs 198 students across grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 481 students per school, that is 59% below typical.

Kent County Public Schools runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 1,694 students. Rock Hall Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Rock Hall Elementary reports that White students make up the majority at 59%. The remainder comes out to 25% Black, 12% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. By comparison, Kent County as a whole is about 77% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Rock Hall Elementary logs 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. An estimated 75% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Rock Hall Elementary sits in the top 10% of Maryland schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 29.7%; actual is 49.8%, +20.1 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the surrounding community, Kent County reports that median household earnings sit near $80,147, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Kent County runs 5 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,694 students), of which Rock Hall Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is H. H. Garnett Elementary, roughly 10.5 miles away. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Rock Hall Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 43.2%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Rock Hall Elementary's enrollment has declined 24% since 2018, when it stood at 259 (now 198). Over the same period, the White share declined from 65% to 59%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 9.0:1 in 2025.

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