The top reported proficiency rate is 65% in English language arts. The lowest is 32% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Matapeake Elementary School
Matapeake Elementary School is a regular public school serving prekindergarten through fifth grade in Stevensville, Maryland, a census-designated place on Kent Island at the eastern end of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. It is part of Queen Anne's County Public Schools. The school sits on a campus separate from the historic downtown core of Stevensville, which is a walkable cluster of shops, restaurants, and art venues along Main Street and Love Point Road. The broader community has a residential suburban character with a rural feel, and most residents commute across the Bay Bridge to jobs in the Baltimore-Annapolis-Washington corridor. The area is growing steadily, with population and home values rising over the past decade.
The school enrolls a fairly large student body for an elementary school of its grade band. Racially and ethnically, the student population is predominantly white, with a modest share of students identifying as Hispanic and a small share identifying as two or more races; very few students are Black or Asian. A substantial share of students qualify for free or reduced-price meals.
State testing results from the 2024-25 school year are available for third, fourth, and fifth graders on the Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program for math and English language arts, and for fifth graders on the Maryland Integrated Science Assessment. In math, third graders had a solid proficiency rate, but the rate dropped across fourth and fifth grades, with fifth grade showing a notably weaker result. In English language arts, third and fourth graders posted solid proficiency rates; the fifth-grade result was reported as a range, with a midpoint that is close to the state average. In science, the fifth-grade proficiency rate was relatively low, a pattern not uncommon for elementary science assessments. A single year of data is available, so no trend can be established. A parent may want to ask the school how it addresses the decline in math proficiency across the upper elementary grades and how science instruction is structured.
Student support metrics such as special education and English learner counts were not available in the data. The comparison fact-set could not place this school relative to other districts in Queen Anne's County because the county has only one district; no peer comparison is possible at the district level.
The school's district did not produce any publicly reported recent changes of note to parents, such as referendums, tax shifts, or curriculum overhauls, so that section is left out rather than guessed.
For parents, this is a school in a growing commuter community on the Eastern Shore, with solid early elementary reading and math results and a pattern of lower achievement in fifth-grade math and science. The student body is not highly diverse economically or racially. A parent considering this school should weigh the academic trajectory against their child's needs and may want to probe the school's approach to the later elementary grades directly.
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