Deep Creek Elementary

Deep Creek Elementary is a cozy primary school in Baltimore, Maryland, one of the schools within Baltimore County Public Schools. The school serves 385 students in grades K through 5.

Across the 177 schools in Baltimore County Public Schools (110,872 students total), Deep Creek Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Deep Creek Elementary shows that 65% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest breaks down as 16% Hispanic, 9% White, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Baltimore County as a whole is about 31% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Deep Creek Elementary shows 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 80% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Baltimore County (around 53%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Deep Creek Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 26.7%; this one delivers 21.0%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Baltimore County indicate median household earnings sit near $91,768, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Deep Creek Elementary is one of 180 public schools in Baltimore County (combined enrollment of about 110,872 students).

Mars Estates Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Deep Creek Elementary. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Deep Creek Elementary ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 29.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Deep Creek Elementary has fell 23%, going from 503 students in 2018 to 385 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 6% to 16% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 today.

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