Bay View Elementary

Bay View Elementary is a medium-sized elementary campus in North East, Maryland, part of Cecil County Public Schools. The school caters to 506 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Cecil County Public Schools runs 28 schools in total, collectively educating 14,853 students. Bay View Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Bay View Elementary shows that White students make up the majority at 63%. Other groups include 13% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 10% Black. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 82%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 63% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Cecil County runs at roughly 51%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Bay View Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.1%, the actual is 27.0%, a residual of -10.1 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Cecil County put the typical household earns roughly $92,007 per year, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Bay View Elementary is one of 29 public schools in Cecil County (combined enrollment of about 14,853 students).

The closest other public school is North East Middle, roughly 2.8 miles away. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Bay View Elementary comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 41.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 7%: 542 students in 2018 compared to 506 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 76% to 63% over that span. Class-load math has widened: from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 in 2025.

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