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Enrollment
549
Elementary
DISTRICT 471 · STATE 481
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240006000138
Waugh Chapel Elementary
840 Sunflower Dr, Odenton, MD 21113 · (410) 672-7565 · Anne Arundel County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL549 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 68% 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
14.3:1
38 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.1:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
30%
164 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 | 19 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 80 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 70 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 83 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 106 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 84 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 107 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (80) is 25% smaller than its 5th grade class (107).
Student demographics
73%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
68.6%
MD avg 50.6% . +7.7pp since 2023
Math
57.0%
MD avg 34.8% . +1.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 69 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 57 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Maryland schools, those numbers are about 51 and 35. Reading and writing scores are up about 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 68.6% | 57.0% |
| 2023-24 | 60.9% | 55.1% |
% 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
60.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
56.5%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 60% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% 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 Waugh Chapel Elementary
Waugh Chapel Elementary's state test result (60.4% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waugh Chapel Elementary this school | 549 | 29.9% | 60.4% |
| Ridgeway Elementary Severn | 551 | 33.0% | 49.5% |
| Piney Orchard Elementary Odenton | 538 | 27.9% | 60.9% |
| Spring Ridge Elementary Frederick | 605 | 31.1% | 65.8% |
| Yellow Springs Elementary Frederick | 628 | 32.0% | 57.0% |
| Flower Valley Elementary Rockville | 524 | 30.0% | 56.7% |
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 Waugh Chapel Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Anne Arundel County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 60.4% | #210 of 853 | #22 of 80 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 57.0% | #219 of 853 ▲ 13 | #19 of 80 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 68.6% | #164 of 853 ▲ 72 | #24 of 80 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 549 | #284 of 898 | #26 of 84 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.3:1 | #483 of 857 | #54 of 81 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 72.6% | #95 of 857 | #10 of 81 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 29.9% | #715 of 885 | #53 of 83 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.7% | #329 of 551 | #31 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
549
-82 (-13%) vs 2020
+16% since 1990-91, when it was 472
Student : Teacher
14.3:1
was 15.4:1
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 | 549 | 38.3 | 14.3:1 | 30% (164) |
| 2023-24 | 564 | 41.6 | 13.6:1 | 27% (151) |
| 2022-23 | 573 | 39.3 | 14.6:1 | 25% (143) |
| 2020-21 | 631 | 41 | 15.4:1 | 21% (135) |
| 2017-18 | 615 | 38.3 | 16.1:1 | 19% (119) |
| 2015-16 | 591 | 35 | 16.9:1 | 20% (116) |
| 2010-11 | 453 | 29 | 15.6:1 | 19% (88) |
| 2000-01 | 400 | 22 | 18.2:1 | 19% (75) |
| 1990-91 | 472 | 24 | 19.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Waugh Chapel Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 11% (615 to 549); teachers unchanged (38.3 to 38.3).
About Waugh Chapel Elementary
Waugh Chapel Elementary is one of the public schools in Odenton, Maryland. It is a medium-sized elementary school. Classes run from pre-K through 5, and the school has 549 students.
Waugh Chapel Elementary is among 125 schools run by Anne Arundel County Public Schools, which serves 85,029 students.
White students form the largest group at Waugh Chapel Elementary, 42% of enrollment. Next come 22% Black, 19% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, and 7% Asian. That compares with about 63% White among all Anne Arundel County residents. By the diversity index, Waugh Chapel Elementary comes in at 73%.
The school reports 38.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 14.3 students per teacher. Across elementary schools in Maryland, the average ratio is about 13.8:1. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 30%. Compared with the 42% average for public schools in Anne Arundel County, the school's rate is lower.
allk12 grades Waugh Chapel Elementary a B+. The grade compares the school only with Maryland public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Waugh Chapel Elementary is 3.9 points above the average proficiency rate on state tests predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 60.4% actual, 56.5% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Maryland.
Among Anne Arundel County residents, median household income is about $124,911, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 4% of people live in poverty. Federal data list 129 public schools in Anne Arundel County, with a combined enrollment of about 85,074.
The closest public school, Arundel Middle, is about 0.7 miles from Waugh Chapel Elementary. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Waugh Chapel Elementary places 3rd of 8 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
Federal records code the school's setting as Suburb: Large.
A comparison of 2020-21 and 2024-25 shows enrollment down 13%, from 631 to 549. The school's ratio fell from 15.4:1 to 14.3:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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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 Odenton
- Arundel MiddleMiddle · 1,312 students
- Odenton ElementaryElementary · 587 students
- Two Rivers Elementary SchoolElementary · 562 students
- Piney Orchard ElementaryElementary · 538 students
- Seven Oaks ElementaryElementary · 506 students
Nearby schools
- Arundel Middle0.7 mi · 1,312
- Four Seasons Elementary0.8 mi · 667
- Arundel High0.9 mi · 1,778
- Piney Orchard Elementary1.2 mi · 538
- Odenton Elementary1.3 mi · 587
- Nantucket Elementary2.5 mi · 675
Frequently asked questions
About Waugh Chapel ElementaryHow large is Waugh Chapel Elementary?
Waugh Chapel Elementary enrolls approximately 549 students in grades PK-05.
Is Waugh Chapel Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Waugh Chapel Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Waugh Chapel Elementary have?
Waugh Chapel Elementary employs 38 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.3:1.
How diverse is Waugh Chapel Elementary?
Waugh Chapel Elementary reports a student body of 42% White, 19% Hispanic, 22% Black, 7% Asian, 9% Two or more.
What district is Waugh Chapel Elementary in?
Waugh Chapel Elementary is part of Anne Arundel County Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.