Featherbed Lane Elementary

Featherbed Lane Elementary, a medium-sized elementary school in Baltimore, Maryland, run under Baltimore County Public Schools, serves 572 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

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

On demographics, Featherbed Lane Elementary reports that the largest single group is Black, at 68% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school reports 26% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 31% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Featherbed Lane Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Around 72% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Baltimore County's rate of about 53%.

With demographic context factored in, Featherbed Lane Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 31.8%; this one delivers 31.2%.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Baltimore County put 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%. Across Baltimore County's 180 public schools (combined enrollment of about 110,872 students), Featherbed Lane Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Woodlawn High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Featherbed Lane Elementary. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Featherbed Lane Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 33.3%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Featherbed Lane Elementary has decreased 5%, going from 605 students in 2018 to 572 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 10% to 26% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 in 2025.

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