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The highest-poverty public high schools in Baltimore, Maryland

47 public high schools in Baltimore, Maryland appear in this ranking of the highest-poverty public high schools, ranked by share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The Seed School of Maryland leads the list at 100%, against a median of 72.8% across the ranked schools.

The table below is sortable and filterable, and the full list downloads as a CSV. Figures come from federal NCES enrollment data and, where applicable, state assessment results for 2024-25.

Schools ranked

Baltimore, Maryland

Top % FRL

100%

Median % FRL

72.8%

HIGHEST POVERTY · BALTIMORE, MARYLAND

#	School	City	District	Level	Students	% FRL
1	The Seed School of Maryland	Baltimore, MD	SEED School of Maryland	High	395	100%
2	Renaissance Academy	Baltimore, MD	Baltimore City Public Schools	High	241	94.2%
3	Excel Academy at Francis M. Wood High	Baltimore, MD	Baltimore City Public Schools	High	264	92.8%
4	Augusta Fells Savage Institute of Visual Arts	Baltimore, MD	Baltimore City Public Schools	High	337	92.6%
5	Achievement Academy at Harbor City High	Baltimore, MD	Baltimore City Public Schools	High	314	89.5%
6	Bluford Drew Jemison STEM Academy West	Baltimore, MD	Baltimore City Public Schools	High	139	89.2%
7	ConneXions: A Community Based Arts School	Baltimore, MD	Baltimore City Public Schools	High	523	88.7%
8	Vivien T. Thomas Medical Arts Academy	Baltimore, MD	Baltimore City Public Schools	High	386	87.3%
9	Frederick Douglass High	Baltimore, MD	Baltimore City Public Schools	High	539	86.5%
10	Carver Vocational-Technical High	Baltimore, MD	Baltimore City Public Schools	High	1,041	86.4%
11	The Reach! Partnership School	Baltimore, MD	Baltimore City Public Schools	High	724	84.4%
12	Green Street Academy	Baltimore, MD	Baltimore City Public Schools	High	808	84.3%
13	Coppin Academy	Baltimore, MD	Baltimore City Public Schools	High	450	83.8%
14	Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women	Baltimore, MD	Baltimore City Public Schools	High	466	82.6%
15	Reginald F. Lewis High	Baltimore, MD	Baltimore City Public Schools	High	481	79.8%
16	Edmondson-Westside High	Baltimore, MD	Baltimore City Public Schools	High	910	79.8%
17	Mergenthaler Vocational-Technical High	Baltimore, MD	Baltimore City Public Schools	High	1,714	79.2%
18	Academy for College and Career Exploration	Baltimore, MD	Baltimore City Public Schools	High	967	79.1%
19	Rosedale Center	Baltimore, MD	Baltimore County Public Schools	High	108	78.7%
20	Paul Laurence Dunbar High	Baltimore, MD	Baltimore City Public Schools	High	1,087	77.7%
21	Baltimore Design School	Baltimore, MD	Baltimore City Public Schools	High	503	75.9%
22	Digital Harbor High School	Baltimore, MD	Baltimore City Public Schools	High	1,359	75.3%
23	Forest Park High	Baltimore, MD	Baltimore City Public Schools	High	1,024	75.1%
24	Western High	Baltimore, MD	Baltimore City Public Schools	High	1,290	72.8%
25	City Neighbors High	Baltimore, MD	Baltimore City Public Schools	High	416	70.7%
26	Patterson High	Baltimore, MD	Baltimore City Public Schools	High	1,330	67.8%
27	Chesapeake High	Baltimore, MD	Baltimore County Public Schools	High	1,052	67.2%
28	Kenwood High	Baltimore, MD	Baltimore County Public Schools	High	1,900	66.4%
29	Dundalk High	Baltimore, MD	Baltimore County Public Schools	High	2,087	65.6%
30	Woodlawn High	Baltimore, MD	Baltimore County Public Schools	High	1,922	65.5%
31	Overlea High	Baltimore, MD	Baltimore County Public Schools	High	1,474	65.4%
32	Bard High School Early College	Baltimore, MD	Baltimore City Public Schools	High	459	65.4%
33	Patapsco High and Center for Arts	Baltimore, MD	Baltimore County Public Schools	High	1,385	64.3%
34	Lansdowne High	Baltimore, MD	Baltimore County Public Schools	High	1,313	64.2%
35	National Academy Foundation	Baltimore, MD	Baltimore City Public Schools	High	801	64.0%
36	Benjamin Franklin High School at Masonville Cove	Baltimore, MD	Baltimore City Public Schools	High	786	63.7%
37	Milford Mill Academy	Baltimore, MD	Baltimore County Public Schools	High	1,471	61.0%
38	Loch Raven High	Baltimore, MD	Baltimore County Public Schools	High	780	56.8%
39	Parkville High	Baltimore, MD	Baltimore County Public Schools	High	1,877	56.1%
40	Baltimore City College	Baltimore, MD	Baltimore City Public Schools	High	1,470	52.1%
41	Pikesville High	Baltimore, MD	Baltimore County Public Schools	High	908	48.8%
42	Baltimore Polytechnic Institute	Baltimore, MD	Baltimore City Public Schools	High	1,632	47.8%
43	Perry Hall High	Baltimore, MD	Baltimore County Public Schools	High	2,012	46.4%
44	Catonsville High	Baltimore, MD	Baltimore County Public Schools	High	1,735	40.7%
45	Western School of Technology	Baltimore, MD	Baltimore County Public Schools	High	942	31.2%
46	Baltimore School for the Arts	Baltimore, MD	Baltimore City Public Schools	High	443	24.2%
47	Eastern Technical High School	Baltimore, MD	Baltimore County Public Schools	High	1,330	23.1%

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