Vincent Farm Elementary

Vincent Farm Elementary is a K-5 school of large scale in White Marsh, Maryland, part of Baltimore County Public Schools, teacheing 776 students in grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 481 students per school, that is 61% above typical.

Vincent Farm Elementary is one of 177 schools operated by Baltimore County Public Schools, a district that teaches 110,872 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Vincent Farm Elementary logs that the largest single group is Black at 48%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school logs 26% White, 10% Hispanic, 10% Asian, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Baltimore County as a whole is about 31% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Vincent Farm Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 47% of students at Vincent Farm Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Vincent Farm Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.5%, the actual is 41.3%, a residual of -5.2 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Baltimore County put median household income runs about $91,768, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Baltimore County runs 180 public schools (combined enrollment of about 110,872 students), of which Vincent Farm Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Crossroads Center, around 1.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Vincent Farm Elementary ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 39.3%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Vincent Farm Elementary's enrollment has declined 16% since 2018, when it stood at 919 (now 776). The White share of enrollment contracted from 49% to 26% over that span.

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