Halls Cross Roads Elementary

Set in Aberdeen, Maryland, Halls Cross Roads Elementary is a medium-sized elementary school, overseen by Harford County Public Schools. It enrolls 425 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Harford County Public Schools comprises 55 schools with combined enrollment of 37,771 students; Halls Cross Roads Elementary is among them.

Demographically, Halls Cross Roads Elementary shows that the largest single group is Black at 45%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder is composed of 21% White, 19% Hispanic, 13% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 14% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. About 86% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Harford County's rate of about 39%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Halls Cross Roads 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 23.4%; this one delivers 37.7%, a residual of +14.3 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Harford County) records that median household income runs about $112,265, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Harford County's 55 public schools (combined enrollment of about 37,771 students), Halls Cross Roads Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Aberdeen Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Halls Cross Roads Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 39.0%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Halls Cross Roads Elementary has contracted 16%, going from 504 students in 2018 to 425 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 7% to 19% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 in 2025.

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