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Does Salem Avenue Elementary have enough mental health and stress support?
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Enrollment
713
Elementary
DISTRICT 433 · STATE 481
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WASHINGTON COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240066001283
Salem Avenue Elementary
1323 Salem Ave Ext, Hagerstown, MD 21740 · (301) 766-8313 · Washington County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL713 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 70% of Maryland public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Maryland public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.2:1
50 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.1:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
83%
592 students
DISTRICT 56% · STATE 54%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 77 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 108 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 109 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 111 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 115 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 95 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 98 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (108) is 10% larger than its 5th grade class (98).
Student demographics
75%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · STATE 73% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
MCAP 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 3-4)English Language Arts
49.3%
MD avg 50.6% . +4.7pp since 2023
Math
39.9%
MD avg 34.8% . +1.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 49 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 40 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Maryland schools, those numbers are about 51 and 35. Reading and writing scores are up about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 49.3% | 39.9% |
| 2023-24 | 44.6% | 38.3% |
% Proficient (Levels 3-4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: MCAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of MD schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
43.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.1%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+17.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 25% typical for Maryland schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 18 points, placing it in Maryland's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Salem Avenue Elementary
Salem Avenue Elementary's state test result (43.0% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salem Avenue Elementary this school | 713 | 83.0% | 43.0% |
| Sandy Plains Elementary Baltimore | 580 | 80.0% | 24.6% |
| Pangborn Elementary Hagerstown | 749 | 76.0% | 35.4% |
| Old Post Road Elementary Abingdon | 850 | 79.6% | 38.0% |
| Logan Elementary Baltimore | 556 | 73.6% | 28.9% |
| Bester Elementary Hagerstown | 490 | 84.7% | 18.9% |
Matched among Maryland elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Salem Avenue Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Washington County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 43.0% | #444 of 853 | #17 of 24 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 39.9% | #431 of 853 ▼ 4 | #17 of 24 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 49.3% | #441 of 853 ▼ 1 | #17 of 24 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 713 | #90 of 898 | #2 of 25 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.2:1 | #466 of 857 | #7 of 22 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 74.6% | #36 of 857 | #2 of 22 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 83.0% | #151 of 885 | #2 of 25 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +6.7% | #179 of 294 | #11 of 13 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
713
+26 (+4%) vs 2020
+53% since 1990-91, when it was 465
Student : Teacher
14.2:1
was 14.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 713 | 50.4 | 14.2:1 | 83% (592) |
| 2023-24 | 705 | 50.4 | 14.0:1 | 87% (614) |
| 2022-23 | 687 | 47.5 | 14.5:1 | 90% (617) |
| 2020-21 | 687 | 49 | 14.0:1 | 80% (549) |
| 2017-18 | 668 | 43 | 15.5:1 | 100% (668) |
| 2015-16 | 702 | 47 | 14.9:1 | 74% (518) |
| 2010-11 | 687 | 45 | 15.3:1 | 72% (495) |
| 2000-01 | 438 | 29 | 15.1:1 | 62% (271) |
| 1990-91 | 465 | 21 | 22.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Salem Avenue Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 7% (668 to 713); teachers up 17% (43 to 50.4).
About Salem Avenue Elementary
The public elementary school Salem Avenue Elementary is located in Hagerstown, Maryland. The school enrolls 713 students, from pre-K through 5. An average school in this group (elementary schools in Maryland) has about 481 students.
District-wide, Washington County Public Schools has 43 schools and 23,320 students.
At Salem Avenue Elementary, the largest share of students is White, at 33%. After that, the student body is 26% Hispanic, 21% Black, and 18% multiracial. Census figures show Washington County is about 75% White. The school's diversity index is 75%, meaning two students picked at random have a 75% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Salem Avenue Elementary's 50.4 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 14.2:1. That matches the 13.8:1 average for elementary schools in Maryland fairly closely. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 83%. The gap from the 58% average for public schools in Washington County is 25 points.
Measured against Maryland public elementary schools, Salem Avenue Elementary receives a B+. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Test results at Salem Avenue Elementary are 17.9 points above what its student poverty level predicts. The average proficiency rate on state tests is 43.0%, compared with a predicted 25.1%, which ranks in the top 10% in Maryland.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Washington County show that the median household income is $77,747, about 24% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 9%. Besides Salem Avenue Elementary, Washington County has 43 other public schools.
The next-closest public school is Marshall Street School, about 0.5 miles away. Salem Avenue Elementary is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Salem Avenue Elementary's average proficiency of 43.0% compares with 44.6% for its nearest scored neighbors.
NCES assigns Salem Avenue Elementary the locale City: Small, meaning inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Salem Avenue Elementary's enrollment climbed from 687 in 2020-21 to 713 in 2024-25.
Questions about school safety, transportation, and start times can be posted here. Reviews and ratings from people who know the school are welcome.
Washington County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
155,709
Census ACS
Median income
$77,747
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
24%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
44
23,320 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Washington County Public Schools
- South Hagerstown HighHigh · 1,690 students
- North Hagerstown HighHigh · 1,583 students
- Williamsport HighHigh · 1,061 students
- Western Heights MiddleMiddle · 883 students
- E. Russell Hicks MiddleMiddle · 841 students
- Northern MiddleMiddle · 841 students
Other schools in Hagerstown
- South Hagerstown HighHigh · 1,690 students
- North Hagerstown HighHigh · 1,583 students
- Western Heights MiddleMiddle · 883 students
- E. Russell Hicks MiddleMiddle · 841 students
- Northern MiddleMiddle · 841 students
- Pangborn ElementaryElementary · 749 students
Nearby schools
- Marshall Street School0.5 mi · 47
- Washington County Job Development Center0.5 mi · 38
- Western Heights Middle0.5 mi · 883
- Jonathan Hager Elementary1.1 mi · 498
- North Hagerstown High1.2 mi · 1,583
- Fountaindale Elementary1.3 mi · 413
Frequently asked questions
About Salem Avenue ElementaryHow many students attend Salem Avenue Elementary?
Salem Avenue Elementary enrolls approximately 713 students in grades PK-05.
Is Salem Avenue Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Salem Avenue Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Salem Avenue Elementary have?
Salem Avenue Elementary employs 50 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.2:1.
How diverse is Salem Avenue Elementary?
Salem Avenue Elementary reports a student body of 33% White, 26% Hispanic, 21% Black, 2% Asian, 18% Two or more.
Is Salem Avenue Elementary public or private?
Salem Avenue Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Washington County Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.