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T. C. Martin Elementary School
Test scores
MCAP 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 3-4)What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 64 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 53 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Maryland schools, those numbers are about 51 and 35. Reading and writing scores are up about 12 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 11 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 53% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 52% typical for Maryland schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Maryland's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About T. C. Martin Elementary School
T. C. Martin Elementary School is one of the medium-sized elementary-level communitys in Bryantown, Maryland, operated by Charles County Public Schools, with 538 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.
T. C. Martin Elementary School is one of 38 schools operated by Charles County Public Schools, a district that enrolls 28,162 students overall.
Looking at the student body, T. C. Martin Elementary School shows that 43% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 33% Black, 12% Hispanic, 11% multiracial. By comparison, Charles County as a whole is about 33% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. About 37% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Charles County's rate of about 50%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, T. C. Martin Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.3%, the actual is 52.6%, a residual of +0.3 points.
Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Charles County) logs that median household income runs about $122,816, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Charles County runs 40 public schools (combined enrollment of about 28,162 students), of which T. C. Martin Elementary School is one.
St. Charles High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 4.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around T. C. Martin Elementary School. On composite proficiency, T. C. Martin Elementary School comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 30.5%.
The school occupies a rural site.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 11%: 483 students in 2018 compared to 538 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 63% to 43% over that span. Class-load math has grew: from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 in 2025.
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