Sunset Elementary

Sunset Elementary is a mid-tier primary school in Pasadena, Maryland, one of the schools within Anne Arundel County Public Schools. The school works with 520 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 125 schools in Anne Arundel County Public Schools (85,029 students total), Sunset Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Sunset Elementary records that 71% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder reads as 13% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 6% Black, 3% Asian.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.2:1. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 41% of students at Sunset Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Sunset Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 49.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 41.5%.

Around the school, census data for Anne Arundel County shows median household earnings sit near $124,911, 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, Anne Arundel County runs 129 public schools (combined enrollment of about 85,074 students), of which Sunset Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Riviera Beach Elementary, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Sunset Elementary comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 43.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 528 students in 2018 compared to 520 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 5% to 13% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 in 2025.

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