Baltimore International Academy

Baltimore International Academy operates as a roomy K-5 school in Baltimore, Maryland, one of the schools within Baltimore City Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 749 students spanning grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 56% bigger than the state mean of about 481.

Baltimore City Public Schools runs 152 schools in total, collectively educating 76,946 students. Baltimore International Academy is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Baltimore International Academy reports that 80% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Beyond that, the school records 8% Hispanic, 6% White, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 59%.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.7:1. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 70% of students at Baltimore International Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Baltimore International Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.5%, the actual is 21.9%, a residual of -10.6 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Baltimore city) logs that the typical household earns roughly $62,177 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Across Baltimore city's 156 public schools (combined enrollment of about 77,341 students), Baltimore International Academy is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Gardenville Elementary, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Baltimore International Academy. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Baltimore International Academy ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 31.4%.

The school occupies a city-core site. Baltimore International Academy operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 753 students in 2018 compared to 749 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 89% to 80% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 in 2025.

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