Seventh District Elementary

Seventh District Elementary is an elementary campus of intimate scale in Parkton, Maryland, part of Baltimore County Public Schools, instructing 346 students in grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 481 students per school, that is 28% leaner than typical.

Across the 177 schools in Baltimore County Public Schools (110,872 students total), Seventh District Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Seventh District Elementary records that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 8% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Baltimore County as a whole is about 53% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Seventh District Elementary records 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 14% of students at Seventh District Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Baltimore County (around 53%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Seventh District Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.7%, the actual is 72.3%, a residual of +6.6 points.

In the surrounding community, 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%. Seventh District Elementary is one of 180 public schools in Baltimore County (combined enrollment of about 110,872 students).

Nearest neighbor: Prettyboy Elementary, around 3.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Seventh District Elementary at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 59.8%.

Seventh District Elementary operates from a small-town location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 14%: 403 students in 2018 compared to 346 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 3% to 8%. Class-load math has fell: from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 in 2025.

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