Coppin Academy

Coppin Academy operates as an one-room-style four-year high school in Baltimore, Maryland, overseen by Baltimore City Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 450 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 62% smaller than the state mean of about 1,185.

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

Demographically, Coppin Academy records that 97% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. By comparison, Baltimore city as a whole is about 59% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.3:1, putting Coppin Academy higher than the state norm the norm. Around 84% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Baltimore city (around 74%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Coppin Academy sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 24.6%; this one delivers 24.6%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Baltimore city) shows that the typical household earns roughly $62,177 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Coppin Academy is one of 156 public schools in Baltimore city (combined enrollment of about 77,341 students).

Nearest neighbor: Robert W. Coleman Elementary, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Coppin Academy comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 22.7%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting. Coppin 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 rose 29%: 349 students in 2018 compared to 450 in 2025. Class-load math has rose: from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 16.7:1 in 2025.

On this page, members of the Coppin Academy community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.