Summary:
Adamstown, Maryland, is home to a single public school, Carroll Manor Elementary, which serves students from Pre-Kindergarten through 5th grade with an enrollment of 530 students as part of the highly-rated Frederick County Public Schools district.
Carroll Manor Elementary stands out as a strong academic performer, particularly in Mathematics, where it consistently outperforms both the district and state averages by wide margins. For the 2025-2026 school year, 46.6% of students were proficient in Math, compared to 38.5% for the district and 27.1% for the state. The school also shows a positive trajectory in its state ranking, rebounding to 232nd out of 864 schools (73rd percentile) and earning a 4-star rating. However, this strength does not extend to Science, where 5th-grade proficiency (36.0%) falls below the district average (40.6%). Additionally, while overall English Language Arts proficiency (63.9%) is close to the district average, it represents a significant improvement from the previous year, when it was below the state average.
A notable concern is the school's chronic absenteeism rate of 20.0%, which is higher than the district average of 16.7%, despite a high per-student spending of $19,395. Another key pattern is a decline in test scores as students progress through grade levels: Math proficiency drops from 61.1% in 3rd grade to 34.7% in 5th grade, and ELA proficiency falls from 66.7% to 57.3% over the same span. This suggests the school excels at building early foundations but may need to strengthen support for upper elementary students to maintain academic momentum.
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