English Language Arts
85.7%
State avg 50.6%
District avg 63.9%
County avg 63.9%
+14.0pp since 2023-24
District avg 63.9%
County avg 63.9%
+14.0pp since 2023-24
Test scores
See how it ranks: all Maryland schools by score · Frederick County schools by score
MCAP, SY 2024-25
All grades, all students. % Proficient (Levels 3-4).Mathematics
52.4%
State avg 34.8%
District avg 44.8%
County avg 44.8%
-13.7pp since 2023-24
District avg 44.8%
County avg 44.8%
-13.7pp since 2023-24
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 · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of MD schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
69.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
53.5%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+15.5pp
above demographic expectation
What 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
2-year history
All grades, all students. Wolfsville Maryland avgEnglish Language Arts
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 85.7% | 63.9% | 63.9% | 50.6% |
| SY 2023-24 | 71.7% | 58.3% | 58.3% | 47.4% |
Mathematics
| Year | School | District | County | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY 2024-25 | 52.4% | 44.8% | 44.8% | 34.8% |
| SY 2023-24 | 66.1% | 41.0% | 41.0% | 33.2% |
How to read these scores
What is MCAP?
Maryland public-school students take the Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program (MCAP) in English Language Arts and Math each spring (grades 3-8 + grade 10). MCAP uses a 4-level performance scale, with Levels 3 and 4 indicating proficiency.
What does "% Proficient (Levels 3-4)" mean?
It is the percentage of students at the school who scored at Performance Level 3 ("Proficient") or Level 4 ("Distinguished") on MCAP. Levels 3 and 4 are MCAP's grade-level benchmark — top 2 of 4 performance levels. A higher number is better.
What does 85.7% mean for English Language Arts at Wolfsville Elementary?
It means about 85.7 percent of students tested at Wolfsville Elementary performed at grade level or above on the MCAP English Language Arts test in 2024-25. The statewide average for Maryland that year was 50.6%. The other students fell into the lower performance levels.
How is the state average calculated?
It is a weighted average, not a simple average of each school's number. We multiply each public school's score by how many of its students tested, add those together for all schools in Maryland, and divide by the total students tested that year. This way a big school with 1,500 students counts more than a small school with 50 students, which is the right way to ask "how did the typical student do this year?". District and county averages on this page use the same method, just scoped to that district or county.
Where does this data come from?
Maryland State Department of Education, Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program (MCAP). School-level Performance Level data scraped from the Maryland Report Card SPA. Headline metric is the cumulative 'Proficient or Distinguished' rate (Performance Levels 3 + 4 on MCAP's 4-level scale).
How often is it updated?
MCAP is administered once a year (spring). Results are released by the state in the summer or early fall. We refresh this page after each annual release.