Baltimore County Title I school earns Maryland’s top 5-star rating again

Woodbridge Elementary School on Pleasant Valley Drive in Baltimore again earned Maryland’s top academic rating, and Baltimore County Public Schools said it was the only Title I school in the state to receive five stars in 2025.

The Baltimore County campus, which serves pre-K through fifth grade, is listed as a Title I school at 1410 Pleasant Valley Drive. School profiles put enrollment at about 455 to 484 students, and one profile says 61% of students are economically disadvantaged. The school website lists Lori Phelps as principal and Kimberly Fields as assistant principal.

Woodbridge’s result stands out inside Baltimore County as well as across Maryland. BCPS said the school was one of 23 Team BCPS schools to earn a five-star rating on the 2025 Maryland School Report Card, a distinction that places it among the district’s highest-performing campuses. Statewide, the Maryland State Department of Education said 43% of schools earned four or five stars in 2024-25, up from 41% in 2023-24, while 86% earned three or more stars, compared with 83% the year before.

The school’s academic profile is especially notable in math. One school profile reported Woodbridge at 47.5% proficiency in math in 2024-25, compared with 20.7% for Baltimore County and 26.5% statewide. That gap helps explain why the Woodbridge result has drawn attention beyond Baltimore County, where Title I schools are more often measured by how well they overcome concentrated poverty than by whether they land in the state’s very highest tier.

For Baltimore City educators and families watching county schools, Woodbridge offers a clear comparison point: a small elementary campus in west Baltimore County, serving a largely economically disadvantaged student body, that still reached the top band on Maryland’s report card. The school’s repeat five-star rating puts it in a narrow group of county schools and leaves it as the state’s sole Title I elementary school at the top level this year.