Collington Square Elementary/Middle

Collington Square Elementary/Middle, an intimate primary school in Baltimore, Maryland, run under Baltimore City Public Schools, enrolls 230 students, covering grades pre-K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 52% below the state mean of about 481.

Baltimore City Public Schools comprises 152 schools with combined enrollment of 76,946 students; Collington Square Elementary/Middle is among them.

In terms of who attends, Collington Square Elementary/Middle reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (89%). Beyond that, the school lists 8% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 59% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Roughly 90% of students at Collington Square Elementary/Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Baltimore city's rate of about 74%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Collington Square Elementary/Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 21.2%, the actual is 16.2%, a residual of -5.0 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Baltimore city put median household income runs about $62,177, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. In all, Baltimore city runs 156 public schools (combined enrollment of about 77,341 students), of which Collington Square Elementary/Middle is one.

Lakewood Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Collington Square Elementary/Middle ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 19.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Five-year trend. Collington Square Elementary/Middle's enrollment has shrank 32% since 2018, when it stood at 340 (now 230). Over the same period, the Black share fell from 99% to 89%. Class-load math has grew: from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 15.9:1 in 2025.

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