Government directory/Maryland/Dependent school system
U.S. Census government inventory · ID 212952

Howard County Public Schools.

Dependent school system in Maryland · Census county area: Howard.

Dependent school systemCountyFunctioning
School system at a glance

Students, schools, and public money.

Election.org connected this entity to its fiscal year 2024 Census finance record by exact government ID and to its 2024–25 NCES district and school directory by exact agency ID.

57,633students in the finance record
78operating schools connected
$20,296current spending per pupil
Six years of enrollment and school finance

See what changed—not just one year.

Exact federal identifiers connect 6 annual Census records for this system. Source dollars stay visible, while spending changes are also converted to constant 2024 dollars.

Census annual tables ↗
Enrollment57,6330.5% lower than 2019
Current spending / pupil$20,2962.8% higher than 2019 after inflation · 26.2% higher than 2019 nominal
Total expenditure$1.3B26.3% higher than 2019 · nominal
Debt outstanding$592.5M16.1% higher than 2019 · nominal
Enrollment reported by Census
2019: 57,907; 2020: 58,868; 2021: 57,293; 2022: 57,325; 2023: 57,676; 2024: 57,63359,08958,08157,073201920202021202220232024
Current spending per pupil (2024 dollars)
2019: $19,735; 2020: $20,138; 2021: $19,344; 2022: $19,263; 2023: $19,824; 2024: $20,296$20,441$19,779$19,118201920202021202220232024
Funding mix over time

Federal, state, and local shares

20192.9% F30.5% S66.6% L
20203.2% F32.9% S63.9% L
20213.8% F32.5% S63.7% L
20227.7% F29.5% S62.7% L
20234.5% F32.5% S63.0% L
20244.6% F30.3% S65.1% L
View the 2019–2024 values as a table
YearEnrollmentSpending / pupilTotal revenueTotal expenditureDebt
201957,907$16,084$1,051,111,000$1,001,945,000$510,182,000
202058,868$16,615$1,085,574,000$1,054,436,000$528,460,000
202157,293$16,710$1,158,890,000$1,083,360,000$545,161,000
202257,325$17,971$1,241,400,000$1,197,692,000$561,152,000
202357,676$19,256$1,283,674,000$1,235,889,000$576,026,000
202457,633$20,296$1,310,257,000$1,265,910,000$592,542,000

Source-reported nominal dollars. Amount fields are converted from source thousands to dollars. No inflation adjustment is applied. An exact identifier links published source rows; it does not erase consolidations, closures, reorganizations, or other real institutional changes between years. Constant-dollar comparisons use BLS CPI-U series CUUR0000SA0, annual U.S. city average; this is not a local cost-of-living index. Joined by exact Census PID6 or NCES LEAID; names are never used.

Schools this system operates

Explore the schools—not just the agency record.

NCES source ↗
Where the money comes from

$1.31B in reported revenue.

Census finance source ↗
Federal4.6%$60.0M
State30.3%$397M
Local65.1%$854M
Total expenditures$1.27B
Current spending$1.17B
Instruction$767M
Support services$380M
Capital outlay$43.7M
Debt outstanding$593M

Fiscal year 2024. Census source amounts are published in thousands of dollars and converted here to dollars; per-pupil fields are published as dollar amounts. Revenue percentages are reproduced from the source.

District contact

Howard County Public Schools

Regular public school district that is not a component of a supervisory union

GradesPK12
StatusOpen
Address10910 Clarksville Pike, Ellicott City, MD, 21042
Open district website →
Still needed for a complete civic record

The federal layer is useful—but it is not the whole school board.

  • Current board members, seat structure, terms, and vacancies
  • Next board election, candidates, filing rules, and past results
  • Exact attendance and board-seat boundaries for an address
  • Meeting agendas, minutes, votes, policies, and public-record links
  • School-level outcomes, audited contracts and vendors, and inflation-adjusted spending comparisons
The source record

A functioning Census entity.

The Census ACTIVE field is Y for this record.

Census ID
212952
Record type
Dependent school system
Classification
County
School level
Elementary and Secondary
Status
Functioning
Published contact fields

Contact and location

Mailing address10910 ROUTE 108 · ELLICOTT CITY, MD · 21042-6198
Census contact/title fieldSuperintendent
County areaHoward

Websites are primarily self-reported and received only limited Census Bureau quality control. County area can mean the area most served or the headquarters county when boundaries cross counties.

Published context

Scale and parent relationship

Estimated enrollment57,6762023

Parent governmentHowardOpen parent record →

Evidence boundary

What each source proves—and what it does not.

Established by the published records

  • The entity or system appears in the 2025 Census listing.
  • Its Census category, identifier, and functioning/dormant field.
  • Only the location, function, population, enrollment, and contact fields actually published.

Not established by these records

  • Whether each governing or administrative role is elected, appointed, or mixed.
  • The exact geographic service boundary or that a reported website remains current.