Swansfield Elementary

Located at 5610 Cedar Ln, in Columbia, Maryland, Swansfield Elementary is a mid-sized elementary campus that instructs 594 students (grades pre-K through 5), operated by Howard County Public Schools. By comparison, Maryland's public schools average about 481 students each, so Swansfield Elementary sits 23% bigger than that benchmark.

Howard County Public Schools runs 77 schools in total, collectively educating 57,565 students. Swansfield Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Swansfield Elementary logs that the largest single group is Black at 39%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school shows 28% White, 13% Hispanic, 11% Asian, 9% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 20% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Swansfield Elementary has 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.4:1. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 38% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Howard County runs at roughly 27%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Swansfield Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.6%, the actual is 54.3%, a residual of +2.7 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Howard County indicate median household income runs about $149,763, 65% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Howard County's 78 public schools (combined enrollment of about 57,565 students), Swansfield Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Harpers Choice Middle, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Swansfield Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 43.8%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Swansfield Elementary has contracted 6%, going from 634 students in 2018 to 594 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 54% to 39% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 today.

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