Summit Park Elementary

Summit Park Elementary is a mid-tier elementary school in Baltimore, Maryland, operated by Baltimore County Public Schools. The school hosts 520 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Within Baltimore County Public Schools, which oversees 177 schools and 110,872 students, Summit Park Elementary is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Summit Park Elementary reports that the most-represented group is White (40%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 36% Black, 11% Asian, 10% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Baltimore County as a whole is about 53% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. An estimated 42% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Baltimore County (around 53%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Summit Park Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 49.5%; this one delivers 62.5%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Baltimore County indicate median household income runs about $91,768, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Summit Park Elementary is one of 180 public schools in Baltimore County (combined enrollment of about 110,872 students).

Nearest neighbor: Wellwood International School, around 0.9 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Summit Park Elementary comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 38.6%.

Summit Park Elementary operates from a residential location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 10%: 473 students in 2018 compared to 520 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 78% to 40%. Class-load math has loosened: from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 15.6:1 in 2025.

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