Willards Elementary

Willards Elementary operates as a compact K-5 school in Willards, Maryland, operated by Wicomico County Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 311 students spanning grades pre-K through 3. By comparison, Maryland's public schools average about 481 students each, so Willards Elementary sits 35% smaller than that benchmark.

Willards Elementary is one of 25 schools operated by Wicomico County Public Schools, a district that serves 15,582 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Willards Elementary reports that nearly all students (80%) are White. The remainder comes out to 9% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, 4% Black. The wider county runs roughly 59% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. About 49% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Wicomico County (around 59%), the school's rate is south of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Willards Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.1%, the actual is 56.6%, a residual of +11.5 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Wicomico County indicate median household earnings sit near $76,210, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Wicomico County runs 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,582 students), of which Willards Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Pittsville Elementary & Middle, roughly 3.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Willards Elementary comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 58.8%.

Willards Elementary operates from an outlying location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Willards Elementary has declined 11%, going from 350 students in 2018 to 311 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 in 2025.

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