Watershed Public Charter

Watershed Public Charter is one of the small elementary schools in Woodlawn, Maryland, run under Baltimore County Public Schools, with 366 students on its rolls from grades K through 6. By comparison, Maryland's public schools average about 481 students each, so Watershed Public Charter sits 24% leaner than that benchmark.

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

Demographically, Watershed Public Charter shows that Black students make up the majority at 59%; the rest consists of 19% White, 13% multiracial, 8% Hispanic. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 31%.

On the resource side, On paper, Watershed Public Charter has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.9:1. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 34% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Baltimore County's rate of about 53%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Watershed Public Charter sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 54.2%; this one delivers 41.3%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Baltimore County indicate median household earnings sit near $91,768, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Watershed Public Charter is one of 180 public schools in Baltimore County (combined enrollment of about 110,872 students).

The closest other public school is Dogwood Elementary, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Watershed Public Charter ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 30.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area. Watershed Public Charter is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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