Curtis Bay Elementary

Set in Baltimore, Maryland, Curtis Bay Elementary is an average-sized elementary school, overseen by Baltimore City Public Schools. It educates 470 students across grades pre-K through 5.

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

Looking at the student body, Curtis Bay Elementary logs that 48% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder consists of 30% Black, 15% White, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Baltimore city as a whole is about 8% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Curtis Bay Elementary has 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. An estimated 71% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Curtis Bay Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 32.0%, the actual is 26.1%, a residual of -5.9 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Baltimore city) records that median household income runs about $62,177, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Baltimore city's 156 public schools (combined enrollment of about 77,341 students), Curtis Bay Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Bay-Brook Elementary/Middle 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. On composite proficiency, Curtis Bay Elementary comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 22.1%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 16%: 559 students in 2018 compared to 470 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 13% to 48% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 in 2025.

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