Taneytown Elementary

Taneytown Elementary is an average-sized elementary school in Taneytown, Maryland, one of the schools within Carroll County Public Schools. The school instructs 450 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Carroll County Public Schools comprises 43 schools with combined enrollment of 26,141 students; Taneytown Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Taneytown Elementary lists that 69% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder consists of 14% Black, 9% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 86% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Taneytown Elementary records 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.5:1. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 60% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Carroll County (around 28%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Taneytown Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.7%, the actual is 48.0%, a residual of +9.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Carroll County shows the typical household earns roughly $118,211 per year, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Taneytown Elementary is one of 44 public schools in Carroll County (combined enrollment of about 26,141 students).

Northwest Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Taneytown Elementary comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 53.6%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Taneytown Elementary has climbed 8%, going from 416 students in 2018 to 450 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 84% to 69% over that span. Class-load math has loosened: from 9.7:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 in 2025.

On the community side, the feed for Taneytown Elementary typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.