Enrollment
393
Elementary
DISTRICT 335 · STATE 481
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DORCHESTER COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240030000621
Sandy Hill Elementary
1503 Glasgow Road, Cambridge, MD 21613 · (410) 228-7978 · Dorchester County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL393 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 15% of Maryland public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
11.9:1
33 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.3:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
81%
318 students
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 54%
Community
0
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 | 81 | 21% |
| Kindergarten | 50 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 53 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 50 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 55 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 57 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 47 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (50) is 6% larger than its 5th grade class (47).
Student demographics
59%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 68% · 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
33.8%
MD avg 50.6% . +8.4pp since 2023
Math
22.3%
MD avg 34.8% . +6.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 34 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 22 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 33.8% | 22.3% |
| 2023-24 | 25.4% | 16.3% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
24.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
26.3%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 24% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 26% typical for Maryland schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Maryland's top nor bottom 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 Sandy Hill Elementary
Sandy Hill Elementary's state test result (24.4% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sandy Hill Elementary this school | 393 | 80.9% | 24.4% |
| Princess Anne Elementary School Princess Anne | 391 | 82.1% | N/A |
| Glen Avenue School Salisbury | 386 | 82.4% | 29.3% |
| Deep Creek Elementary Baltimore | 385 | 80.3% | 21.0% |
| Greenwood Elementary School Princess Anne | 507 | 82.4% | 34.9% |
| Lexington Park Elementary Lexington Park | 383 | 76.0% | 22.0% |
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 Sandy Hill Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Dorchester County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 24.4% | #729 of 853 | #6 of 7 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 22.3% | #715 of 853 ▲ 49 | #6 of 7 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 33.8% | #662 of 853 ▲ 64 | #7 of 7 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 393 | #607 of 898 | #2 of 7 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.9:1 | #166 of 857 | #2 of 6 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 58.7% | #393 of 857 | #3 of 6 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 80.9% | #180 of 885 | #2 of 7 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.0% | #252 of 551 | N/A |
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
393
0 (0%) vs 2020
-34% since 1990-91, when it was 592
Student : Teacher
11.9:1
was 10.3:1
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 | 393 | 33 | 11.9:1 | 81% (318) |
| 2023-24 | 397 | 36 | 11.0:1 | 100% (397) |
| 2022-23 | 374 | 31 | 12.1:1 | 100% (374) |
| 2020-21 | 393 | 38 | 10.3:1 | 100% (393) |
| 2017-18 | 457 | 39 | 11.7:1 | 100% (457) |
| 2015-16 | 480 | 40 | 12.0:1 | 79% (378) |
| 2010-11 | 499 | 35 | 14.3:1 | 67% (332) |
| 2000-01 | 375 | 29 | 12.9:1 | 50% (186) |
| 1990-91 | 592 | 29 | 20.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Sandy Hill Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 14% (457 to 393); teachers down 15% (39 to 33).
About Sandy Hill Elementary
Sandy Hill Elementary is a small elementary school in Cambridge, Maryland, administered by Dorchester County Public Schools. The school's 393 students are in pre-K through 5.
Dorchester County Public Schools counts 4,586 students in its 11 schools, and Sandy Hill Elementary is one of them.
At Sandy Hill Elementary, Black students make up 60% of the student body. It is also 19% White, 13% Hispanic, and 8% multiracial. For comparison, the population of Dorchester County is roughly 25% Black. Pick two students at random and there is a 59% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Federal staffing data show 33 full-time-equivalent teachers at Sandy Hill Elementary and a ratio of 11.9:1. The school has fewer students per teacher than the 13.8:1 average for elementary schools in Maryland. The count of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch equals 81% of enrollment.
Sandy Hill Elementary is graded C- by allk12, scoring above 15% of Maryland public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Schools in Maryland with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 26.3%. Sandy Hill Elementary scores 24.4%.
Sandy Hill Elementary is located in Dorchester County, where the median household income is $61,839, about 19% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 10%. Besides Sandy Hill Elementary, Dorchester County has 12 other public schools.
Mace's Lane Middle School is the public school closest to Sandy Hill Elementary, about 1.6 miles away. There are 4 other public schools within five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Sandy Hill Elementary at 5th of 7.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Town: Distant: in a town some distance from an urbanized area.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment held near 393, starting from 393. There were more students per teacher in 2024-25 (11.9:1) than in 2020-21 (10.3:1).
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news at Sandy Hill Elementary. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Dorchester County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
32,754
Census ACS
Median income
$61,839
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
19%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
13
4,586 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Dorchester County Public Schools
- Cambridge-South Dorchester High SchoolHigh · 811 students
- North Dorchester High SchoolHigh · 526 students
- Mace's Lane Middle SchoolMiddle · 490 students
- Maple Elementary SchoolElementary · 483 students
- North Dorchester Middle SchoolMiddle · 414 students
- Hurlock Elementary SchoolElementary · 391 students
Other schools in Cambridge
- Cambridge-South Dorchester High SchoolHigh · 811 students
- Mace's Lane Middle SchoolMiddle · 490 students
- Maple Elementary SchoolElementary · 483 students
- Choptank Elementary SchoolElementary · 319 students
- Dorchester County Career and Technology CenterHigh
- Judith P. Hoyer Early Childhood CenterElementary
Nearby schools
- Mace's Lane Middle School1.6 mi · 490
- Choptank Elementary School1.7 mi · 319
- Cambridge-South Dorchester High School2.5 mi · 811
- Maple Elementary School2.8 mi · 483
- White Marsh Elementary6.2 mi · 289
- Warwick Elementary School8.1 mi · 346
Frequently asked questions
About Sandy Hill ElementaryHow large is Sandy Hill Elementary?
Sandy Hill Elementary enrolls approximately 393 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Sandy Hill Elementary serve?
Sandy Hill Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does Sandy Hill Elementary have?
Sandy Hill Elementary employs 33 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.9:1.
What is the student diversity at Sandy Hill Elementary?
Student demographics at Sandy Hill Elementary are roughly 19% White, 13% Hispanic, 60% Black, 1% Asian, 8% Two or more.
What district is Sandy Hill Elementary in?
Sandy Hill Elementary is part of Dorchester County Public Schools.
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