Clay Hill Public Charter School

Set in Baltimore, Maryland, Clay Hill Public Charter School is a tight-knit K-5 school, run under Baltimore City Public Schools. It hosts 335 students across grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 30% leaner than the state mean of about 481.

Baltimore City Public Schools runs 152 schools in total, collectively educating 76,946 students. Clay Hill Public Charter School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Clay Hill Public Charter School shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 75% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 17% Black, 5% White. By comparison, Baltimore city as a whole is about 8% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Clay Hill Public Charter School has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.9:1. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 60% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Baltimore city runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Clay Hill Public Charter School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 38.5%; this one delivers 32.7%.

Zooming out to the county, Baltimore city reports that median household earnings sit near $62,177, 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), Clay Hill Public Charter School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Claremont School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Clay Hill Public Charter School. On composite proficiency, Clay Hill Public Charter School comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 23.8%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting. As a public charter, Clay Hill Public Charter School runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

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