Glenmar Elementary

Glenmar Elementary operates as an intimate primary school in Baltimore, Maryland, part of Baltimore County Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 263 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Maryland's public schools average about 481 students each, so Glenmar Elementary sits 45% smaller than that benchmark.

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

Demographically, Glenmar Elementary shows that 64% of the student body identifies as Black. Other groups include 16% Hispanic, 9% White, 5% Asian, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Baltimore County as a whole is about 31% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. About 60% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Glenmar Elementary is in the bottom 10% of Maryland public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 38.5%; Glenmar Elementary posts 23.1%, -15.3 points below that line.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Baltimore County indicate median household earnings sit near $91,768, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Glenmar Elementary is one of 180 public schools in Baltimore County (combined enrollment of about 110,872 students).

Middle River Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Glenmar Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 29.2%.

Glenmar Elementary operates from a commuter-belt location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 39%: 431 students in 2018 compared to 263 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 12% to 5% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 10.6:1 in 2025.

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