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What's the one class at Riderwood Elementary every student should take?
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Enrollment
423
Elementary
DISTRICT 463 · STATE 481
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BALTIMORE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240012000462
Riderwood Elementary
1711 Landrake Rd, Towson, MD 21204 · (410) 887-3568 · Baltimore County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL423 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 99% of Maryland public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Maryland public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.7:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.0:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
9%
40 students
DISTRICT 55% · STATE 54%
Community
4
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 83 | 20% |
| Grade 1 | 57 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 67 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 85 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 54 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 77 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (83) is 8% larger than its 5th grade class (77).
Student demographics
47%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 72% · STATE 73% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
MCAP 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 3-4)English Language Arts
92.5%
MD avg 50.6% . -1.7pp since 2023
Math
74.1%
MD avg 34.8% . -9.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 93 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 74 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Maryland schools, those numbers are about 51 and 35. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 9 points.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 92.5% | 74.1% |
| 2023-24 | 94.2% | 83.1% |
% Proficient (Levels 3-4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: MCAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of MD schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
86.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
68.6%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+17.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 86% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 69% typical for Maryland schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 17 points, placing it in Maryland's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Riderwood Elementary
Riderwood Elementary's state test result (86.0% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Riderwood Elementary this school | 423 | 9.5% | 86.0% |
| Rodgers Forge Elementary Baltimore | 412 | 9.5% | 86.8% |
| Severna Park Elementary Severna Park | 372 | 8.3% | 75.1% |
| Sparks Elementary Sparks | 509 | 10.4% | 81.8% |
| Lisbon Elementary Woodbine | 480 | 14.4% | 62.6% |
| Westbrook Elementary Bethesda | 468 | 13.0% | 78.9% |
Matched among Maryland elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Riderwood Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Baltimore County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 86.0% | #6 of 853 | #2 of 109 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 74.1% | #60 of 853 ▼ 48 | #9 of 109 ▼ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 92.5% | #3 of 853 no change | #1 of 109 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 423 | #556 of 898 | #69 of 112 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.7:1 | #533 of 857 | #38 of 108 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 46.9% | #555 of 857 | #81 of 108 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 9.5% | #859 of 885 | #108 of 110 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +2.7% | #241 of 294 | #18 of 23 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
423
+18 (+4%) vs 2020
-3% since 1990-91, when it was 434
Student : Teacher
14.7:1
was 13.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 423 | 28.9 | 14.7:1 | 9% (40) |
| 2023-24 | 392 | 28.5 | 13.7:1 | 7% (29) |
| 2022-23 | 395 | 31.3 | 12.6:1 | 10% (40) |
| 2020-21 | 405 | 31 | 13.1:1 | 6% (25) |
| 2017-18 | 412 | 24.4 | 16.9:1 | 4% (16) |
| 2015-16 | 454 | 27 | 16.8:1 | 6% (25) |
| 2010-11 | 528 | 33 | 16.0:1 | 3% (17) |
| 2000-01 | 508 | 28 | 18.1:1 | 2% (11) |
| 1990-91 | 434 | 21 | 20.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Riderwood Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 3% (412 to 423); teachers up 18% (24.4 to 28.9).
About Riderwood Elementary
Riderwood Elementary runs as a medium-sized elementary school in Towson, Maryland. Its 423 students are spread across kindergarten through 5.
Baltimore County Public Schools counts 110,872 students in its 177 schools, and Riderwood Elementary is one of them.
White students account for 71% of enrollment at Riderwood Elementary. Other students are 9% Asian, 8% Black, 7% Hispanic, and 5% multiracial. That is higher than the 53% White share among all Baltimore County residents. Riderwood Elementary has a diversity index of 47%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
The school reported 28.9 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25 and a ratio of 14.7:1. For comparison, elementary schools in Maryland average 13.8:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 9%. Across public schools in Baltimore County, the average is 53%.
Measured against Maryland public elementary schools, Riderwood Elementary receives an A+. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Riderwood Elementary is a top-10% school in Maryland on BeatsExpectations, beating its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests of 68.6% with an actual 86.0%.
County data help place the school in context: in Baltimore County, median household income is about $91,768, roughly 42% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 7%. The public schools of Baltimore County number 180 and enroll about 110,872.
Ridge/Ruxton School is the public school closest to Riderwood Elementary, about 1.0 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 63.2%; Riderwood Elementary's is 86.0%, ranking 1st of 7.
By NCES locale, the school is City: Small, or inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Riderwood Elementary had 405 students in 2020-21 and 423 in 2024-25, a 4% rise. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 13.1:1 in 2020-21 to 14.7:1 in 2024-25.
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Baltimore County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
850,796
Census ACS
Median income
$91,768
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
180
110,872 students
Quick facts
Related schools
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Other schools in Towson
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- Southwest EDLP at Woodlawn High SchoolHigh · 4 students
Nearby schools
- Ridge/Ruxton School1.0 mi · 101
- West Towson Elementary1.0 mi · 445
- Lutherville Laboratory1.8 mi · 405
- George W. Carver Center for Arts & Technology2.0 mi · 1,017
- Pinewood Elementary2.2 mi · 598
- Ridgely Middle2.2 mi · 1,039
Frequently asked questions
About Riderwood ElementaryHow large is Riderwood Elementary?
Riderwood Elementary enrolls approximately 423 students in grades KG-05.
Is Riderwood Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Riderwood Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Riderwood Elementary have?
Riderwood Elementary employs 29 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.7:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Riderwood Elementary?
At Riderwood Elementary, the student body is approximately 71% White, 7% Hispanic, 8% Black, 9% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Riderwood Elementary?
Riderwood Elementary is overseen by Baltimore County Public Schools in Baltimore County.
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