Gorman Crossing Elementary
Laurel, MD · Elementary School · Grades -1-5
Gorman Crossing Elementary is a elementary school in Laurel, MD with 743 students enrolled and a 72% proficiency rate. Part of Howard County Public Schools. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
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About This School
Gorman Crossing Elementary is a elementary school located in Laurel, Maryland. The school serves 743 students in grades -1-5. The student-to-teacher ratio is 13.3:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 72% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading.
21% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Gorman Crossing Elementary is part of the Howard County Public Schools in Maryland.
How This School Compares
Gorman Crossing Elementary has 743 students enrolled, making it smaller than the average school in Howard County Public Schools (759 students). Its 72% proficiency rate is 14 percentage points above the district average of 58%. Compared to the Maryland state average of 49%, the school performs 23 points higher. With a 13.3:1 student-teacher ratio, it offers smaller class sizes than the national average.
Frequently Asked Questions
Gorman Crossing Elementary has 743 students enrolled in grades -1-5. The student-to-teacher ratio is 13.3:1.
According to EDFacts data, 72% of students at Gorman Crossing Elementary meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Gorman Crossing Elementary is part of the Howard County Public Schools in Laurel, 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.
The this entity record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
The methodology behind every numeric value on this page is publicly documented on the NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts portal and described in detail on this site’s methodology page. Refresh cadence varies by underlying series; the page surfaces the as-of date for each number so readers can trace any figure back to the source release.
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.