Mars Estates Elementary

Located at 1500 E Homberg Ave, in Baltimore, Maryland, Mars Estates Elementary is a small elementary school that enrolls 400 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by Baltimore County Public Schools.

Within Baltimore County Public Schools, which oversees 177 schools and 110,872 students, Mars Estates Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Mars Estates Elementary shows that the largest single group is Black at 55%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school logs 24% Hispanic, 11% White, 9% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 31% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. An estimated 76% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Baltimore County runs at roughly 53%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Mars Estates Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 29.4%, the actual is 27.1%, a residual of -2.3 points.

In the surrounding community, Baltimore County reports that the typical household earns roughly $91,768 per year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Baltimore County runs 180 public schools (combined enrollment of about 110,872 students), of which Mars Estates Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Deep Creek Elementary, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Mars Estates Elementary comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 28.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mars Estates Elementary has shrank 8%, going from 434 students in 2018 to 400 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 12% to 24%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 today.

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