City Neighbors High

Located at 5609 Sefton Avenue, in Baltimore, Maryland, City Neighbors High is a rural-scale 9-12 campus that enrolls 416 students (grades 9 through 12), overseen by Baltimore City Public Schools. That puts it 65% leaner than the typical public school in Maryland, which averages around 1,185 students.

Within Baltimore City Public Schools, which oversees 152 schools and 76,946 students, City Neighbors High is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, City Neighbors High records that 85% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 6% White, 5% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Baltimore city as a whole is about 59% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.6:1. The state averages around 15.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 71% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, City Neighbors High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.4%, the actual is 27.7%, a residual of -4.7 points.

In the broader community, Baltimore city reports 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), City Neighbors High is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: City Neighbors Hamilton, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), City Neighbors High ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 32.5%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site. City Neighbors High operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Five-year trend. City Neighbors High's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 408 (now 416). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 today.

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