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Chadwick Elementary
Test scores
MCAP 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 3-4)What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 38 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Maryland schools, those numbers are about 51 and 35. Reading and writing scores are up about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 32% typical for Maryland schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Maryland's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Chadwick Elementary
Located at 1918 Winder Rd, in Baltimore, Maryland, Chadwick Elementary is an average-sized elementary campus that hosts 603 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by Baltimore County Public Schools. By comparison, Maryland's public schools average about 481 students each, so Chadwick Elementary sits 25% above that benchmark.
Across the 177 schools in Baltimore County Public Schools (110,872 students total), Chadwick Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
In terms of who attends, Chadwick Elementary logs that the largest single group is Black at 46%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder is composed of 34% Asian, 11% Hispanic, 6% White, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 31% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, Chadwick Elementary shows 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.1:1. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 72% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Baltimore County runs at roughly 53%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Chadwick Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 31.6%; this one delivers 43.4%.
Zooming out to the county, Baltimore County reports that median household income runs about $91,768, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Baltimore County's 180 public schools (combined enrollment of about 110,872 students), Chadwick Elementary is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is Dogwood Elementary, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Chadwick Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 34.8%.
The school occupies an outer-ring site.
Over the past 7-year window. Chadwick Elementary's enrollment has edged down 7% since 2018, when it stood at 649 (now 603). Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 in 2025.
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