Sugarloaf Elementary

Sugarloaf Elementary, a well-populated K-5 school in Frederick, Maryland, operated by Frederick County Public Schools, serves 845 students, covering grades K through 5. By comparison, Maryland's public schools average about 481 students each, so Sugarloaf Elementary sits 76% bigger than that benchmark.

Frederick County Public Schools runs 67 schools in total, collectively educating 48,054 students. Sugarloaf Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Sugarloaf Elementary lists that the largest single group is White at 34%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 32% Asian, 13% Black, 12% Hispanic, 9% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 68%.

On the resource side, On paper, Sugarloaf Elementary has 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.9:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Roughly 12% of students at Sugarloaf Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Frederick County's rate of about 37%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Sugarloaf Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 67.0%, the actual is 68.9%, a residual of +1.9 points.

In the broader community, census data for Frederick County shows median household earnings sit near $122,002, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Frederick County runs 69 public schools (combined enrollment of about 48,054 students), of which Sugarloaf Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Urbana Elementary, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 7 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Sugarloaf Elementary comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 63.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Sugarloaf Elementary typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.