Sandalwood Elementary

Sandalwood Elementary is a K-5 school of moderately sized scale in Baltimore, Maryland, part of Baltimore County Public Schools, works with 440 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Sandalwood Elementary is one of 177 schools operated by Baltimore County Public Schools, a district that caters to 110,872 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Sandalwood Elementary shows that 72% of the student body identifies as Black. Beyond that, the school records 17% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 4% White. The wider county runs roughly 31% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Roughly 83% of students at Sandalwood Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Baltimore County's rate of about 53%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Sandalwood Elementary ranks in the top 10% of Maryland public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 25.1%; Sandalwood Elementary posts 46.6%, +21.5 points above that line.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Baltimore County put the typical household earns roughly $91,768 per year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Baltimore County's 180 public schools (combined enrollment of about 110,872 students), Sandalwood Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Deep Creek Middle, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Sandalwood Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Sandalwood Elementary at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 27.6%.

Sandalwood Elementary operates from a commuter-belt location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Sandalwood Elementary has fell 19%, going from 543 students in 2018 to 440 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 10% to 4% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 14.8:1 today.

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