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Seven Oaks Elementary
Test scores
MCAP 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 3-4)What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 51 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 38 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 13 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 16 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 37% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 41% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Seven Oaks Elementary
Seven Oaks Elementary is an elementary-level community of moderately sized scale in Odenton, Maryland, overseen by Anne Arundel County Public Schools, hosting 506 students in grades pre-K through 5.
Within Anne Arundel County Public Schools, which oversees 125 schools and 85,029 students, Seven Oaks Elementary is one campus in the system.
On the student-mix side, Seven Oaks Elementary lists that the largest single group is Black, at 74% of enrollment. Other groups include 10% White, 6% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 18% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.2:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 56% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Anne Arundel County's rate of about 42%.
After controlling for student poverty, Seven Oaks Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.4%, the actual is 37.2%, a residual of -4.1 points.
Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Anne Arundel County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $124,911 per year, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Anne Arundel County's 129 public schools (combined enrollment of about 85,074 students), Seven Oaks Elementary is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Meade Heights Elementary, around 1.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Seven Oaks Elementary comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 35.6%.
The campus sits in a residential setting.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 26%: 686 students in 2018 compared to 506 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share edged up from 63% to 74%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 today.
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