Roye-Williams Elementary

Located at 201 Oakington Rd, in Havre De Grace, Maryland, Roye-Williams Elementary is a medium-sized primary school that hosts 444 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within Harford County Public Schools.

Across the 55 schools in Harford County Public Schools (37,771 students total), Roye-Williams Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Roye-Williams Elementary records that 38% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder looks like 26% Hispanic, 23% Black, 12% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 73% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Roughly 50% of students at Roye-Williams Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Harford County runs at roughly 39%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Roye-Williams Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 44.5%; this one delivers 44.4%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Harford County) records that the typical household earns roughly $112,265 per year, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Harford County's 55 public schools (combined enrollment of about 37,771 students), Roye-Williams Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Halls Cross Roads Elementary, around 1.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Roye-Williams Elementary. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Roye-Williams Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 37.8%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Roye-Williams Elementary has edged down 11%, going from 498 students in 2018 to 444 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 18% to 26%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 in 2025.

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