Enrollment
301
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 481
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BALTIMORE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240012000361
Chatsworth School
222 New Ave, Reisterstown, MD 21136 · (410) 887-1103 · Baltimore County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL301 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 82% of Maryland public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Maryland public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
10.4:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.0:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
38%
115 students
DISTRICT 55% · STATE 54%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 14 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 62 | 21% |
| Grade 1 | 49 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 49 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 44 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 46 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 37 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (62) is 68% larger than its 5th grade class (37).
Student demographics
59%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 72% · STATE 73% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
MCAP 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 3-4)English Language Arts
70.4%
MD avg 50.6% . +6.6pp since 2023
Math
56.8%
MD avg 34.8% . -3.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 57 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 70.4% | 56.8% |
| 2023-24 | 63.8% | 60.3% |
% Proficient (Levels 3-4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: MCAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
62.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
51.6%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+11.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 63% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 52% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Chatsworth School
Chatsworth School's state test result (62.8% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chatsworth School this school | 301 | 38.2% | 62.8% |
| Heather Hills Elementary Bowie | 361 | 37.7% | 88.3% |
| Yorktown Elementary Bowie | 396 | 37.4% | 59.0% |
| Watershed Public Charter Woodlawn | 366 | 33.9% | 41.3% |
| City Neighbors Hamilton Baltimore | 250 | 38.4% | 61.4% |
| Imagine Andrews Public Charter Andrews Afb | 347 | 28.8% | 57.3% |
Matched among Maryland elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Chatsworth School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Baltimore County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 62.8% | #181 of 853 | #22 of 109 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 56.8% | #222 of 853 ▼ 44 | #27 of 109 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 70.4% | #141 of 853 ▲ 54 | #19 of 109 ▲ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 301 | #749 of 898 | #98 of 112 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.4:1 | #42 of 857 | #1 of 108 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 59.1% | #388 of 857 | #68 of 108 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 38.2% | #635 of 885 | #86 of 110 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -20.4% | #145 of 551 | #25 of 84 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
301
-34 (-10%) vs 2020
+3% since 1990-91, when it was 291
Student : Teacher
10.4:1
was 9.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 301 | 28.8 | 10.4:1 | 38% (115) |
| 2023-24 | 289 | 30 | 9.6:1 | 34% (98) |
| 2022-23 | 293 | 30.7 | 9.5:1 | 39% (114) |
| 2020-21 | 335 | 35 | 9.6:1 | 35% (117) |
| 2017-18 | 378 | 34.2 | 11.1:1 | 29% (108) |
| 2015-16 | 373 | 32 | 11.7:1 | 23% (87) |
| 2010-11 | 371 | 35 | 10.6:1 | 14% (52) |
| 2000-01 | 407 | 33 | 12.3:1 | 16% (67) |
| 1990-91 | 291 | 37 | 7.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Chatsworth School.
Since 2017-18: students down 20% (378 to 301); teachers down 16% (34.2 to 28.8).
About Chatsworth School
Chatsworth School is an elementary school located in Reisterstown, Maryland, in Baltimore County. The school counted 301 students in 2024-25, covering pre-K through 5. It has 37% fewer students than the average for elementary schools in Maryland (about 481).
Baltimore County Public Schools has 177 schools and 110,872 students, and Chatsworth School is one of those schools.
The share of Black students at Chatsworth School is 60%, a majority. The school is also 17% White, 8% Hispanic, 7% Asian, and 6% multiracial. Census figures show Baltimore County is about 31% Black. The diversity index for Chatsworth School is 59%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Chatsworth School has 28.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 10.4:1. Elementary schools in Maryland average 13.8:1, 3.4 more students per teacher than here. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 38% at Chatsworth School. That rate is below the 53% average among public schools in Baltimore County.
On the allk12 Grade, Chatsworth School lands at A-, ahead of 82% of Maryland public elementary schools.
Chatsworth School posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 62.8%, compared with a predicted 51.6%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Maryland schools on BeatsExpectations.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Baltimore County show that the median household earns about $91,768 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 42%, and about 7% of people live in poverty. Baltimore County has 180 public schools with about 110,872 students, including Chatsworth School.
About 0.2 miles separate Chatsworth School from the closest public school, Franklin Middle. The five-mile area around Chatsworth School holds at least 8 other public schools. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Chatsworth School at 1st of 9.
The NCES locale for Chatsworth School is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, Chatsworth School had a net loss of 34 students, or 10%.
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Baltimore County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
850,796
Census ACS
Median income
$91,768
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
180
110,872 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Baltimore County Public Schools
- Dundalk HighHigh · 2,087 students
- Perry Hall HighHigh · 2,012 students
- Woodlawn HighHigh · 1,922 students
- Kenwood HighHigh · 1,900 students
- Dulaney HighHigh · 1,889 students
- Parkville HighHigh · 1,877 students
Other schools in Reisterstown
- Franklin HighHigh · 1,481 students
- Franklin MiddleMiddle · 1,150 students
- Reisterstown ElementaryElementary · 518 students
- Cedarmere ElementaryElementary · 502 students
- Glyndon ElementaryElementary · 476 students
- Franklin ElementaryElementary · 392 students
Nearby schools
- Franklin Middle0.2 mi · 1,150
- Franklin Elementary0.3 mi · 392
- Reisterstown Elementary0.8 mi · 518
- Glyndon Elementary0.9 mi · 476
- Franklin High1.2 mi · 1,481
- Cedarmere Elementary1.9 mi · 502
Frequently asked questions
About Chatsworth SchoolHow many students attend Chatsworth School?
Chatsworth School enrolls approximately 301 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Chatsworth School serve?
Chatsworth School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Chatsworth School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Chatsworth School is approximately 10.4:1 (29 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Chatsworth School?
Student demographics at Chatsworth School are roughly 17% White, 8% Hispanic, 60% Black, 7% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is Chatsworth School public or private?
Chatsworth School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Baltimore County Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.