Wolfsville Elementary
Test scores
MCAP 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 3-4)What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 86 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 52 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 14 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 14 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 69% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 54% typical for Maryland schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 15 points, placing it in Maryland's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Wolfsville Elementary
Set in Myersville, Maryland, Wolfsville Elementary is an one-room-style K-5 school, one of the schools within Frederick County Public Schools. It caters to 163 students across grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 481 students per school, that is 66% smaller than typical.
Wolfsville Elementary is one of 67 schools operated by Frederick County Public Schools, a district that educates 48,054 students overall.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Wolfsville Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (83%). Other groups include 10% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 68% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 35% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.
With demographic context factored in, Wolfsville Elementary ranks in the top 10% of Maryland public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 53.5%; Wolfsville Elementary posts 69.0%, +15.5 points above that line.
In the area at large, the surrounding county (Frederick County) reports that median household income runs about $122,002, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Wolfsville Elementary is one of 69 public schools in Frederick County (combined enrollment of about 48,054 students).
Nearest neighbor: Greenbrier Elementary, around 4.3 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Wolfsville Elementary comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 55.3%.
Wolfsville Elementary operates from an outlying location.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Wolfsville Elementary has rose 3%, going from 159 students in 2018 to 163 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 today.
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