Waverly Elementary
Ellicott City, MD · Elementary School · Grades -1-5
Waverly Elementary is a elementary school in Ellicott City, MD with 867 students enrolled and a 68% proficiency rate. Part of Howard County Public Schools. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
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About This School
Waverly Elementary is a elementary school located in Ellicott City, Maryland. The school serves 867 students in grades -1-5. The student-to-teacher ratio is 14.0:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 68% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading.
10% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Waverly Elementary is part of the Howard County Public Schools in Maryland.
How This School Compares
Waverly Elementary has 867 students enrolled, making it larger than the average school in Howard County Public Schools (759 students). Its 68% proficiency rate is 10 percentage points above the district average of 58%. Compared to the Maryland state average of 49%, the school performs 19 points higher. With a 14.0:1 student-teacher ratio, it offers smaller class sizes than the national average.
Frequently Asked Questions
Waverly Elementary has 867 students enrolled in grades -1-5. The student-to-teacher ratio is 14.0:1.
According to EDFacts data, 68% of students at Waverly Elementary meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Waverly 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.
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.
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.