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What's the biggest difference between Veterans Elementary and what you expected?
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Enrollment
883
Elementary
DISTRICT 614 · STATE 481
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HOWARD COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240042001646
Veterans Elementary
4355 Montgomery Road, Ellicott City, MD 21043 · (410) 313-1700 · Howard County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL883 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 81% of Maryland public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats 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
13.1:1
68 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.7:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
28%
243 students
DISTRICT 29% · 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 | 86 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 114 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 145 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 127 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 133 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 135 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 143 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (114) is 20% smaller than its 5th grade class (143).
Student demographics
73%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 77% · 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
63.1%
MD avg 50.6% . -8.1pp since 2023
Math
57.7%
MD avg 34.8% . -14.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 63 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 58 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 14 points.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 63.1% | 57.7% |
| 2023-24 | 71.2% | 71.8% |
% 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
66.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.9%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 58% 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 Veterans Elementary
Veterans Elementary's state test result (66.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Veterans Elementary this school | 883 | 27.5% | 66.0% |
| Hollifield Station Elementary Ellicott City | 677 | 26.0% | 59.0% |
| Bellows Spring Elementary Ellicott City | 806 | 26.3% | 60.0% |
| Cabin Branch Elementary Clarksburg | 645 | 28.1% | 69.0% |
| Centennial Lane Elementary Ellicott City | 749 | 16.4% | 77.8% |
| Manor Woods Elementary Ellicott City | 697 | 16.9% | 77.1% |
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 Veterans Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Howard County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 66.0% | #141 of 853 | #18 of 42 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 57.7% | #212 of 853 ▼ 137 | #21 of 42 ▼ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 63.1% | #238 of 853 ▼ 119 | #23 of 42 ▼ 8 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 883 | #20 of 898 | #1 of 42 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.1:1 | #301 of 857 | #25 of 42 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 73.0% | #86 of 857 | #17 of 42 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 27.5% | #733 of 885 | #20 of 42 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.1% | #450 of 551 | #20 of 26 |
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
883
-68 (-7%) vs 2020
-10% since 2010-11, when it was 984
Student : Teacher
13.1:1
was 14.2:1
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 | 883 | 67.6 | 13.1:1 | 28% (243) |
| 2023-24 | 897 | 66.6 | 13.5:1 | 27% (245) |
| 2022-23 | 870 | 67 | 13.0:1 | 29% (250) |
| 2020-21 | 951 | 67 | 14.2:1 | 14% (137) |
| 2017-18 | 930 | 68 | 13.7:1 | 17% (157) |
| 2015-16 | 912 | 67 | 13.6:1 | 20% (179) |
| 2010-11 | 984 | 73 | 13.5:1 | 19% (186) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Veterans Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 5% (930 to 883); teachers down 1% (68 to 67.6).
About Veterans Elementary
Veterans Elementary is a large elementary school in Ellicott City, Maryland. It has an enrollment of 883 students in pre-K through 5. Elementary schools in Maryland average about 481 students, which makes this school 84% larger than average.
Howard County Public Schools runs 77 schools with a combined 57,565 students. Veterans Elementary is one of them.
About 42% of students at Veterans Elementary are Asian, the largest single group. It is also 22% White, 19% Black, 9% Hispanic, and 7% multiracial. Howard County's residents are about 19% Asian, 22 points below the school's share. A diversity index of 73% means there is a 73% chance two randomly chosen students at Veterans Elementary are from different groups.
Veterans Elementary reported 67.6 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 13.1:1. Elementary schools in Maryland average 13.8:1, 0.8 more students per teacher than here. There are 243 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 28% of enrollment. The figure for public schools in Howard County is close, at 27%.
Veterans Elementary earns an A- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 81% of Maryland public elementary schools.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, Veterans Elementary would be expected to post about 57.9%. Its actual average proficiency rate across its state test results is 66.0%.
The county, Howard County, is where the school is located. Median household income comes to about $149,763, about 65% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 4%. The county's public schools total 78, with about 57,565 students.
Ellicott Mills Middle is the nearest public school to Veterans Elementary, about 0.3 miles away. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Veterans Elementary comes in 3rd of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
Veterans Elementary is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, a location NCES labels Suburb: Large.
The school's student count fell 7% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years. Students per teacher dropped from 14.2 in 2020-21 to 13.1 in 2024-25.
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Howard County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
336,328
Census ACS
Median income
$149,763
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
65%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
78
57,565 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Howard County Public Schools
- Marriotts Ridge HighHigh · 1,741 students
- Reservoir HighHigh · 1,597 students
- Atholton HighHigh · 1,540 students
- Howard HighHigh · 1,493 students
- Mount Hebron HighHigh · 1,455 students
- Oakland Mills HighHigh · 1,413 students
Other schools in Ellicott City
- Howard HighHigh · 1,493 students
- Mount Hebron HighHigh · 1,455 students
- Centennial HighHigh · 1,377 students
- Waverly ElementaryElementary · 827 students
- Bellows Spring ElementaryElementary · 806 students
- Burleigh Manor MiddleMiddle · 777 students
Other Veterans Elementary schools
5 other US public schools in 5 states are named Veterans Elementary. Veterans Elementary is the 2nd largest of the 6.
- Veterans ElementaryBakersfield, CA · 1,002 students
- Veterans ElementaryChula Vista, CA · 832 students
- Veterans Elementary SchoolMacon, GA · 715 students
- VETERANS ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWESLEY CHAPEL, FL · 638 students
- VETERANS ELEM.HANNIBAL, MO · 403 students
Nearby schools
- Ellicott Mills Middle0.3 mi · 698
- Northfield Elementary0.9 mi · 764
- Dunloggin Middle1.0 mi · 623
- Worthington Elementary1.1 mi · 403
- Howard High1.9 mi · 1,493
- Thunder Hill Elementary2.1 mi · 459
Frequently asked questions
About Veterans ElementaryHow many students attend Veterans Elementary?
Veterans Elementary enrolls approximately 883 students in grades PK-05.
Is Veterans Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Veterans Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Veterans Elementary have?
Veterans Elementary employs 68 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.1:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Veterans Elementary?
At Veterans Elementary, the student body is approximately 22% White, 9% Hispanic, 19% Black, 42% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is Veterans Elementary public or private?
Veterans Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Howard County Public Schools.
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