Scotts Branch Elementary

Located at 8220 Tawnmoore Rd, in Baltimore, Maryland, Scotts Branch Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community that teaches 457 students (grades K through 5), part of Baltimore County Public Schools.

Scotts Branch Elementary is one of 177 schools operated by Baltimore County Public Schools, a district that works with 110,872 students overall.

On demographics, Scotts Branch Elementary reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (86%). Beyond that, the school logs 11% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 31% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Scotts Branch Elementary has 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. About 71% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Baltimore County runs at roughly 53%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Scotts Branch Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.1%, the actual is 30.0%, a residual of -2.2 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Baltimore County shows median household earnings sit near $91,768, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Baltimore County's 180 public schools (combined enrollment of about 110,872 students), Scotts Branch Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Northwest Academy of Health Sciences, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Scotts Branch Elementary comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 32.5%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Looking at the recent track record. Scotts Branch Elementary's enrollment has decreased 24% since 2018, when it stood at 601 (now 457). Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 6% to 11%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 in 2025.

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