Cedarmere Elementary

Cedarmere Elementary is an elementary campus of mid-sized scale in Reisterstown, Maryland, one of the schools within Baltimore County Public Schools, educateing 502 students in grades pre-K through 5.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Cedarmere Elementary records that the largest single group is Black at 42%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 33% Hispanic, 12% White, 9% Asian, 2% Native American. By comparison, Baltimore County as a whole is about 31% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 60% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Cedarmere Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.0%, the actual is 31.9%, a residual of -7.0 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Baltimore County) logs that median household income runs about $91,768, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Cedarmere Elementary is one of 180 public schools in Baltimore County (combined enrollment of about 110,872 students).

The closest other public school is Franklin High, roughly 0.8 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Cedarmere Elementary. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Cedarmere Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 37.5%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Cedarmere Elementary's enrollment has decreased 11% since 2018, when it stood at 567 (now 502). The White share of enrollment declined from 19% to 12% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 today.

Inside the community feed, the feed for Cedarmere Elementary typically covers school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.