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Enrollment
471
Elementary
DISTRICT 471 · STATE 481
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240006000137
Van Bokkelen Elementary
1140 Reece Rd, Severn, MD 21144 · (410) 222-6535 · Anne Arundel County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL471 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 14% of Maryland public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Maryland public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
11.5:1
41 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.1:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
87%
410 students
DISTRICT 46% · STATE 54%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 51 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 60 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 80 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 68 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 71 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 68 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 73 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (60) is 18% smaller than its 5th grade class (73).
Student demographics
55%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · STATE 73% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
MCAP 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 3-4)English Language Arts
26.9%
MD avg 50.6% . -1.6pp since 2023
Math
14.5%
MD avg 34.8% . -1.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 27 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 15 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Maryland schools, those numbers are about 51 and 35. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 26.9% | 14.5% |
| 2023-24 | 28.5% | 16.1% |
% Proficient (Levels 3-4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: MCAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
21.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
22.7%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 22% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 23% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Van Bokkelen Elementary
Van Bokkelen Elementary's state test result (21.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Van Bokkelen Elementary this school | 471 | 87.0% | 21.5% |
| Deerfield Run Elementary Laurel | 482 | 89.8% | 24.1% |
| William Beanes Elementary Suitland | 424 | 90.3% | 16.8% |
| Ardmore Elementary Springdale | 470 | 92.3% | 36.1% |
| Waldon Woods Elementary Clinton | 523 | 92.0% | 27.4% |
| Montpelier Elementary Laurel | 573 | 90.9% | 37.9% |
Matched among Maryland elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Van Bokkelen Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Anne Arundel County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 21.5% | #770 of 853 | #78 of 80 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 14.5% | #807 of 853 ▼ 41 | #79 of 80 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 26.9% | #753 of 853 ▼ 72 | #77 of 80 ▼ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 471 | #449 of 898 | #43 of 84 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.5:1 | #121 of 857 | #23 of 81 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 54.6% | #456 of 857 | #51 of 81 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 87.0% | #124 of 885 | #6 of 83 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.1% | #470 of 551 | #39 of 49 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
471
+90 (+24%) vs 2020
-19% since 1990-91, when it was 583
Student : Teacher
11.5:1
was 10.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 471 | 41 | 11.5:1 | 87% (410) |
| 2023-24 | 433 | 37.9 | 11.4:1 | 89% (387) |
| 2022-23 | 402 | 38.8 | 10.4:1 | 87% (349) |
| 2020-21 | 381 | 38 | 10.0:1 | 87% (330) |
| 2017-18 | 491 | 38.5 | 12.8:1 | 80% (392) |
| 2015-16 | 473 | 36 | 13.1:1 | 86% (406) |
| 2010-11 | 392 | 32 | 12.3:1 | 81% (316) |
| 2000-01 | 472 | 36 | 13.1:1 | 84% (395) |
| 1990-91 | 583 | 31 | 18.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Van Bokkelen Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 4% (491 to 471); teachers up 6% (38.5 to 41).
About Van Bokkelen Elementary
Van Bokkelen Elementary is one of the public schools in Severn, Maryland. It is a mid-sized elementary school. It had 471 students in 2024-25, spanning pre-K through 5.
Anne Arundel County Public Schools runs 125 schools with a combined 85,029 students. Van Bokkelen Elementary is one of them.
More than half of the students at Van Bokkelen Elementary are Black (61%). The rest of enrollment is 27% Hispanic, 5% White, and 4% multiracial. Census estimates put the Black share of Anne Arundel County's population at about 18%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Van Bokkelen Elementary scores 55%.
Its ratio of 11.5:1 is based on 41 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Maryland is 13.8:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. In all, 87% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Across public schools in Anne Arundel County, the average is 42%.
Among Maryland public elementary schools, Van Bokkelen Elementary outscored 14%, which works out to a D on the allk12 Grade.
Test results at Van Bokkelen Elementary are 1.2 points below what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (21.5% actual, 22.7% predicted).
The school is in Anne Arundel County, where the median household earns about $124,911 a year, about 46% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 4%. Van Bokkelen Elementary shares Anne Arundel County with 128 other public schools.
Meade Heights Elementary is about 0.6 miles from Van Bokkelen Elementary, the shortest distance to any other public school. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. The school's 21.5% average proficiency ranks 9th among 9 nearby schools.
By NCES locale, the school is Suburb: Large, or in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment increased from 381 to 471, a 24% rise. There were more students per teacher in 2024-25 (11.5:1) than in 2020-21 (10.0:1).
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Anne Arundel County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
598,166
Census ACS
Median income
$124,911
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
46%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
129
85,074 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Anne Arundel County Public Schools
- Glen Burnie HighHigh · 2,226 students
- North County HighHigh · 2,161 students
- Broadneck HighHigh · 2,143 students
- Annapolis HighHigh · 2,075 students
- Meade HighHigh · 2,045 students
- Crofton High SchoolHigh · 1,906 students
Other schools in Severn
- Severn Run High SchoolHigh · 1,608 students
- Ridgeway ElementaryElementary · 551 students
- Quarterfield ElementaryElementary · 544 students
- Severn ElementaryElementary · 458 students
- Center of Applied Technology-NorthHigh
Nearby schools
- Meade Heights Elementary0.6 mi · 494
- Ridgeway Elementary1.1 mi · 551
- Seven Oaks Elementary1.3 mi · 506
- Severn Elementary1.4 mi · 458
- Meade Middle1.5 mi · 697
- Meade High1.6 mi · 2,045
Frequently asked questions
About Van Bokkelen ElementaryHow many students attend Van Bokkelen Elementary?
Van Bokkelen Elementary enrolls approximately 471 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Van Bokkelen Elementary serve?
Van Bokkelen Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Van Bokkelen Elementary?
Approximately 11.5:1 students per teacher at Van Bokkelen Elementary.
What is the student diversity at Van Bokkelen Elementary?
Student demographics at Van Bokkelen Elementary are roughly 5% White, 27% Hispanic, 61% Black, 1% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is Van Bokkelen Elementary public or private?
Van Bokkelen Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Anne Arundel County Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.