Lansdowne Elementary

As a moderately sized elementary campus in Baltimore, Maryland, Lansdowne Elementary enrolls 603 students from grades pre-K through 5, part of Baltimore County Public Schools. By comparison, Maryland's public schools average about 481 students each, so Lansdowne Elementary sits 25% bigger than that benchmark.

Baltimore County Public Schools runs 177 schools in total, collectively educating 110,872 students. Lansdowne Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Lansdowne Elementary reports that the largest single group is Hispanic at 39%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder is composed of 26% White, 22% Black, 8% multiracial, 4% Asian. By comparison, Baltimore County as a whole is about 8% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Lansdowne Elementary has 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 72% of students at Lansdowne Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Baltimore County runs at roughly 53%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Lansdowne Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 31.5%, the actual is 21.1%, a residual of -10.4 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Baltimore County shows median household income runs about $91,768, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Baltimore County's 180 public schools (combined enrollment of about 110,872 students), Lansdowne Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Lansdowne Middle, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Lansdowne Elementary at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 22.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Over the past 7-year window. Lansdowne Elementary's enrollment has ticked up 18% since 2018, when it stood at 513 (now 603). Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 18% to 39%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 in 2025.

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