Deer Park Elementary

Deer Park Elementary, an intimate elementary school in Owings Mills, Maryland, operated by Baltimore County Public Schools, teaches 384 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 20% smaller than the typical public school in Maryland, which averages around 481 students.

Baltimore County Public Schools comprises 177 schools with combined enrollment of 110,872 students; Deer Park Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Deer Park Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (89%). Beyond that, the school reports 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 2% White. By comparison, Baltimore County as a whole is about 31% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. An estimated 67% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Baltimore County runs at roughly 53%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Deer Park Elementary is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 34.6%; this one delivers 52.6%, a residual of +18.0 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Baltimore County shows median household income runs about $91,768, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Deer Park Elementary is one of 180 public schools in Baltimore County (combined enrollment of about 110,872 students).

Deer Park Middle Magnet School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Deer Park Elementary at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 35.7%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Deer Park Elementary has shrank 13%, going from 442 students in 2018 to 384 in 2025.

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