Pine Grove Middle

Pine Grove Middle is a middle-of-the-pack intermediate school in Baltimore, Maryland, part of Baltimore County Public Schools. The school teaches 804 students in grades 6 through 8.

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

Looking at the student body, Pine Grove Middle records that 45% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school records 34% White, 8% Hispanic, 7% Asian, 6% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 31%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 53% of students at Pine Grove Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Pine Grove Middle is in the bottom 10% of Maryland public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 42.6%; Pine Grove Middle posts 27.4%, -15.3 points below that line.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Baltimore County) reports that median household earnings sit near $91,768, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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), Pine Grove Middle is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Pine Grove Elementary, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Pine Grove Middle. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Pine Grove Middle at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 32.6%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Pine Grove Middle has declined 13%, going from 927 students in 2018 to 804 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 48% to 34%.

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