Bear Creek Elementary

Bear Creek Elementary operates as a moderately sized elementary campus in Baltimore, Maryland, part of Baltimore County Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 461 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Baltimore County Public Schools runs 177 schools in total, collectively educating 110,872 students. Bear Creek Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Bear Creek Elementary shows that the largest single group is White at 50%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 23% Hispanic, 16% Black, 10% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Bear Creek Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 77% of students at Bear Creek Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Baltimore County's rate of about 53%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Bear Creek Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 28.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 31.9%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Baltimore County put median household income runs about $91,768, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Baltimore County's 180 public schools (combined enrollment of about 110,872 students), Bear Creek Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Battle Monument School, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Bear Creek Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Bear Creek Elementary at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 29.5%.

Bear Creek Elementary operates from an outer-ring location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Bear Creek Elementary has ticked down 3%, going from 474 students in 2018 to 461 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 66% to 50% over that span.

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