Riderwood Elementary

Located at 1711 Landrake Rd, in Towson, Maryland, Riderwood Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack elementary school that educates 423 students (grades K through 5), run under Baltimore County Public Schools.

Baltimore County Public Schools comprises 177 schools with combined enrollment of 110,872 students; Riderwood Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Riderwood Elementary shows that the largest single group is White, at 71% of enrollment; the rest breaks down as 9% Asian, 8% Black, 7% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 53%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. An estimated 9% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Baltimore County runs at roughly 53%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Riderwood Elementary sits in the top 10% of Maryland schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 68.6%; actual is 86.0%, +17.4 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the broader community, census data for Baltimore County shows the typical household earns roughly $91,768 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Riderwood Elementary is one of 180 public schools in Baltimore County (combined enrollment of about 110,872 students).

Nearest neighbor: Ridge/Ruxton School, around 1.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Riderwood Elementary at 1st of 7; the average score across the group is 63.2%.

Riderwood Elementary operates from an urban location.

Five-year trend. Riderwood Elementary's enrollment has grew 3% since 2018, when it stood at 412 (now 423). White enrollment moved from 81% to 71% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 today.

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