Owings Mills Elementary

Owings Mills Elementary is one of the middle-of-the-pack K-5 schools in Owings Mills, Maryland, part of Baltimore County Public Schools, with 666 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 481 students per school, that is 38% above typical.

Owings Mills Elementary is one of 177 schools operated by Baltimore County Public Schools, a district that educates 110,872 students overall.

On demographics, Owings Mills Elementary records that 53% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school records 38% Hispanic, 4% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Baltimore County as a whole is about 31% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Owings Mills Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. About 68% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Baltimore County (around 53%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Owings Mills Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.9%, the actual is 35.4%, a residual of +1.5 points.

In the area at large, 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%. Owings Mills Elementary is one of 180 public schools in Baltimore County (combined enrollment of about 110,872 students).

Owings Mills High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Owings Mills Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 30.9%.

Owings Mills Elementary operates from an outer-ring location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Owings Mills Elementary has decreased 13%, going from 769 students in 2018 to 666 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment climbed from 26% to 38% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.