Route 40 Elementary

Route 40 Elementary is an elementary campus of minimally staffed scale in Frostburg, Maryland, part of Garrett County Public Schools, caters to 123 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Maryland's public schools average about 481 students each, so Route 40 Elementary sits 74% smaller than that benchmark.

Garrett County Public Schools runs 12 schools in total, collectively educating 3,853 students. Route 40 Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Route 40 Elementary reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (97%); the rest is composed of 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.4:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 45% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Garrett County runs at roughly 59%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Route 40 Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 47.8%; this one delivers 52.0%.

Around the school, census data for Garrett County shows median household income runs about $67,688, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Route 40 Elementary is one of 12 public schools in Garrett County (combined enrollment of about 3,853 students).

Frost Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 4.4 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Route 40 Elementary comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 52.1%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Route 40 Elementary has shrank 12%, going from 140 students in 2018 to 123 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 20.0:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.