Ballenger Creek Elementary

Located at 5250 Kingsbrook Dr, in Frederick, Maryland, Ballenger Creek Elementary is a mid-tier elementary-level community that instructs 715 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under Frederick County Public Schools. That puts it 49% above the typical public school in Maryland, which averages around 481 students.

Ballenger Creek Elementary is one of 67 schools operated by Frederick County Public Schools, a district that works with 48,054 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Ballenger Creek Elementary logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (29%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 26% Black, 22% White, 14% multiracial, 8% Asian. By comparison, Frederick County as a whole is about 13% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Ballenger Creek Elementary shows 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 57% of students at Ballenger Creek Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Frederick County's rate of about 37%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Ballenger Creek Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 40.2%; this one delivers 44.1%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Frederick County put median household income runs about $122,002, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Frederick County runs 69 public schools (combined enrollment of about 48,054 students), of which Ballenger Creek Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Ballenger Creek Middle, around 0.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Ballenger Creek Elementary comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 45.3%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 11%: 646 students in 2018 compared to 715 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 41% to 22% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 in 2025.

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