Shipley's Choice Elementary

Shipley's Choice Elementary, a tight-knit elementary school in Millersville, Maryland, one of the schools within Anne Arundel County Public Schools, serves 344 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Maryland's public schools average about 481 students each, so Shipley's Choice Elementary sits 28% below that benchmark.

Within Anne Arundel County Public Schools, which oversees 125 schools and 85,029 students, Shipley's Choice Elementary is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Shipley's Choice Elementary shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (82%). Other groups include 9% multiracial, 4% Asian, 3% Hispanic. By comparison, Anne Arundel County as a whole is about 63% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. About 6% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Anne Arundel County (around 42%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Shipley's Choice Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 71.0%, the actual is 78.1%, a residual of +7.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Anne Arundel County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $124,911 per year, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Shipley's Choice Elementary is one of 129 public schools in Anne Arundel County (combined enrollment of about 85,074 students).

Nearest neighbor: Old Mill Middle South, around 1.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Shipley's Choice Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Shipley's Choice Elementary at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 46.1%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Shipley's Choice Elementary has fell 12%, going from 390 students in 2018 to 344 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 87% to 82% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 in 2025.

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