Pleasant Plains Elementary

Located at 8300 Pleasant Plains Rd, in Towson, Maryland, Pleasant Plains Elementary is a mid-sized primary school that teaches 575 students (grades pre-K through 5), overseen by Baltimore County Public Schools.

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

In terms of who attends, Pleasant Plains Elementary lists that the largest single group is Black at 49%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 30% Hispanic, 12% White, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Baltimore County as a whole is about 31% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Pleasant Plains Elementary records 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Around 70% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Baltimore County (around 53%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Pleasant Plains Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.8%, the actual is 24.9%, a residual of -7.8 points.

In the area at large, Baltimore County reports that median household earnings sit near $91,768, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Baltimore County runs 180 public schools (combined enrollment of about 110,872 students), of which Pleasant Plains Elementary is one.

Loch Raven Technical Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Pleasant Plains Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 36.3%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Pleasant Plains Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 12% since 2018, when it stood at 655 (now 575). The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 15% to 30% over that span.

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