Beechfield Elementary/Middle

Set in Baltimore, Maryland, Beechfield Elementary/Middle is a mid-sized K-5 school, operated by Baltimore City Public Schools. It works with 510 students across grades pre-K through 8.

Baltimore City Public Schools runs 152 schools in total, collectively educating 76,946 students. Beechfield Elementary/Middle is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Beechfield Elementary/Middle logs that 87% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 8% Hispanic, 2% White. By comparison, Baltimore city as a whole is about 59% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 88% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Baltimore city runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Beechfield Elementary/Middle tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 22.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 14.8%.

Across the wider county, census data for Baltimore city shows median household income runs about $62,177, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Baltimore city runs 156 public schools (combined enrollment of about 77,341 students), of which Beechfield Elementary/Middle is one.

Nearest neighbor: North Bend Elementary/Middle, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Beechfield Elementary/Middle at 9th of 9; the average score across the group is 29.1%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 16%: 604 students in 2018 compared to 510 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 3% to 8%.

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