Walter S. Mills - Parole Elementary

Walter S. Mills - Parole Elementary is an average-sized elementary school in Annapolis, Maryland, operated by Anne Arundel County Public Schools. The school instructs 559 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Within Anne Arundel County Public Schools, which oversees 125 schools and 85,029 students, Walter S. Mills - Parole Elementary is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Walter S. Mills - Parole Elementary lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 59%. Beyond that, the school reports 36% Black, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Anne Arundel County as a whole is about 11% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Walter S. Mills - Parole Elementary records 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Walter S. Mills - Parole Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 95% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Anne Arundel County's rate of about 42%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Walter S. Mills - Parole Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 18.0%, the actual is 25.9%, a residual of +7.9 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Anne Arundel County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $124,911 per year, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Anne Arundel County runs 129 public schools (combined enrollment of about 85,074 students), of which Walter S. Mills - Parole Elementary is one.

Monarch Academy Annapolis ES is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Walter S. Mills - Parole Elementary comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 34.7%.

Walter S. Mills - Parole Elementary operates from a commuter-belt location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Walter S. Mills - Parole Elementary has ticked down 11%, going from 627 students in 2018 to 559 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 41% to 36% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 10.1:1 in 2025.

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