NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools MD

Best-Resourced Schools in Arnold, MD

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6 public K-12 schools in Arnold from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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6
Schools
3,362
Students
52.8/100
Avg Resource Index
13.2:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Arnold has more public-school enrollment than 34% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Arnold's 6 listed schools all sit inside one district, creating a compact governance structure with one budget, board, and reporting chain. That makes citywide comparisons cleaner than in places split across several districts, but it does not make the campuses interchangeable: elementary, middle, and high-school staffing needs differ. The ranked list is best read as variation inside one system rather than competition among separate local authorities.

The listed grade span is structurally narrow

Arnold's 6 listed schools do not form a conventional mix of elementary, middle, and high-school campuses. The missing or thin grade bands make all-school city averages less representative of a typical K–12 pathway; district boundaries and nearby-city options may matter more for the grades not well represented here.

One district, but meaningful resource variation

Arnold's schools share one district authority while their average Resource Investment Index ranks at the 93rd percentile among listed cities. Shared governance removes one source of policy variation, but it does not erase campus differences by grade span or enrollment. The 20-point gap between Aacps Virtual Academy and Belvedere Elementary measures the remaining local spread. Use the district-level picture for common budget context, then compare the school components to see whether staffing, counseling, gifted-program reporting, or attendance accounts for each campus's position.

City enrollment
Top 66%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
93rd percentile
Teacher staffing
77th percentile

Severn River Middle accounts for 20.1% of all Arnold public-school enrollment

That concentration means Arnold-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: Middle. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Arnold operates one school district — a single-district system

Arnold's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Arnold student-teacher ratio is 13.2:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Aacps Virtual Academy 64
2. Severn River Middle 56
3. Magothy River Middle 56
4. Broadneck Elementary 50
5. Arnold Elementary 47
6. Belvedere Elementary 44

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Arnold

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Aacps Virtual Academy 70.7/100
  2. 2 Severn River Middle 50.3/100
  3. 3 Broadneck Elementary 46.3/100
  4. 4 Arnold Elementary 46.3/100
  5. 5 Magothy River Middle 43.6/100

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Which Arnold school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Aacps Virtual Academy has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Arnold schools in this federal-data comparison at 64/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Arnold, MD? ▼

Arnold has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,362 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 13.2:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.