Elementary · Regular · Grades PK to 5
Atholton Elementary, Columbia, MD
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 516
- Teachers (FTE)
- 35.0
- Students per teacher
- 14.7
- Grades
- PK to 5
This school's ratio is 1.2 higher than the district figure of 13.5. The Maryland average across schools is 14.6. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
School details
- Address
- 6700 Seneca Dr, Columbia, MD 21046
- Phone
- (410)313-6853
- District
- Howard County Public Schools
- County
- Howard County
- Level
- Elementary
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- City: Midsize
- NCES school ID
- 240042000718
School meals
- Free lunch
- 71
- Reduced-price lunch
- 11
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 8215.9% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 69Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
- Community Eligibility Provision
- No
Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.
Related schools
Other elementary schools in Howard County Public Schools
- Veterans Elementary 883 students
- Hanover Hills Elementary 875 students
- Fulton Elementary 872 students
- Pointers Run Elementary 835 students
- Waverly Elementary 827 students
- Bellows Spring Elementary 806 students
- Elkridge Elementary 798 students
- Bollman Bridge Elementary 775 students
- Northfield Elementary 764 students
- Hammond Elementary 763 students
- Gorman Crossing Elementary 750 students
- Centennial Lane Elementary 749 students
We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.