Rossville Elementary

Located at 7649 Gum Spring Road, in Baltimore, Maryland, Rossville Elementary is an expansive elementary school that teaches 726 students (grades pre-K through 5), part of Baltimore County Public Schools. That puts it 51% bigger than the typical public school in Maryland, which averages around 481 students.

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

On the student-mix side, Rossville Elementary logs that the most-represented group is Black (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 19% White, 18% Asian, 10% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 31% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Rossville Elementary reports 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Around 59% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Rossville Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.2%, the actual is 46.7%, a residual of +7.5 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Baltimore County indicate the typical household earns roughly $91,768 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Baltimore County's 180 public schools (combined enrollment of about 110,872 students), Rossville Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nottingham Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Rossville Elementary. On composite proficiency, Rossville Elementary comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 31.1%.

Rossville Elementary operates from a bedroom-community location.

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