Pine Grove Elementary

Pine Grove Elementary is one of the middle-of-the-pack elementary campuss in Baltimore, Maryland, one of the schools within Baltimore County Public Schools, with 418 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

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

On demographics, Pine Grove Elementary lists that 37% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 34% White, 10% Hispanic, 10% Asian, 8% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Roughly 49% of students at Pine Grove Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, Pine Grove Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 45.5%; this one delivers 49.6%.

In the broader 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%. Across Baltimore County's 180 public schools (combined enrollment of about 110,872 students), Pine Grove Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Pine Grove Middle, roughly 0.4 miles away. 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), Pine Grove Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 28.9%.

Pine Grove Elementary operates from a bedroom-community location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Pine Grove Elementary has decreased 29%, going from 588 students in 2018 to 418 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 56% to 34% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 in 2025.

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