St Leonard Elementary

St Leonard Elementary is an elementary school of small scale in St Leonard, Maryland, overseen by Calvert County Public Schools, educateing 401 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Within Calvert County Public Schools, which oversees 24 schools and 14,849 students, St Leonard Elementary is one campus in the system.

On demographics, St Leonard Elementary reports that the largest single group is White, at 58% of enrollment; the rest looks like 20% Black, 11% multiracial, 10% Hispanic. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 75%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.7:1. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 49% of students at St Leonard Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Calvert County runs at roughly 32%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), St Leonard Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 45.4%; this one delivers 57.1%.

Across the wider county, census data for Calvert County shows median household earnings sit near $133,922, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 2%. Across Calvert County's 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,849 students), St Leonard Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Mutual Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around St Leonard Elementary. On composite proficiency, St Leonard Elementary comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 49.3%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Over the past 7-year window. St Leonard Elementary's enrollment has shrank 24% since 2018, when it stood at 529 (now 401). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.