Veterans Elementary

Veterans Elementary, a sprawling K-5 school in Ellicott City, Maryland, operated by Howard County Public Schools, serves 883 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 481 students per school, that is 84% bigger than typical.

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

On demographics, Veterans Elementary records that the largest single group is Asian at 42%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 22% White, 19% Black, 9% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. That is noticeably more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 68 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Around 28% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Veterans Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.9%, the actual is 66.0%, a residual of +8.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Howard County indicate the typical household earns roughly $149,763 per year, 65% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Howard County's 78 public schools (combined enrollment of about 57,565 students), Veterans Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Ellicott Mills Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Veterans Elementary. On composite proficiency, Veterans Elementary comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 59.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Veterans Elementary has decreased 5%, going from 930 students in 2018 to 883 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment shrank from 51% to 42% over that span.

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