Bellows Spring Elementary
Ellicott City, MD · Elementary School · Grades -1-5
Bellows Spring Elementary is a elementary school in Ellicott City, MD with 799 students enrolled and a 62% proficiency rate. Part of Howard County Public Schools. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
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About This School
Bellows Spring Elementary is a elementary school located in Ellicott City, Maryland. The school serves 799 students in grades -1-5. The student-to-teacher ratio is 12.7:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 62% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading.
26% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Bellows Spring Elementary is part of the Howard County Public Schools in Maryland.
How This School Compares
Bellows Spring Elementary has 799 students enrolled, making it larger than the average school in Howard County Public Schools (759 students). Its 62% proficiency rate is 3 percentage points above the district average of 58%. Compared to the Maryland state average of 49%, the school performs 13 points higher. With a 12.7:1 student-teacher ratio, it offers smaller class sizes than the national average.
Frequently Asked Questions
Bellows Spring Elementary has 799 students enrolled in grades -1-5. The student-to-teacher ratio is 12.7:1.
According to EDFacts data, 62% of students at Bellows Spring Elementary meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Bellows Spring Elementary is part of the Howard County Public Schools in Ellicott City, Maryland. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.
All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.
School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.
this entity is one of the data points covered by this site’s U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment dataset. The detail above comes directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the context that follows situates the headline numbers against the broader distribution across U.S. public schools and districts.
Every number on this page links back to NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.