Enrollment
218
Elementary
DISTRICT 466 · STATE 481
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BALTIMORE CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240009000186
Dickey Hill Elementary/Middle
5025 Dickey Hill Road, Baltimore, MD 21207 · (410) 396-0610 · Baltimore city
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL218 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 1% of Maryland public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Maryland public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.0:1
15 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.4:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
82%
179 students
DISTRICT 76% · STATE 54%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 14 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 31 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 16 | 7% |
| Grade 2 | 25 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 22 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 20 | 9% |
| Grade 5 | 13 | 6% |
| Grade 6 | 30 | 14% |
| Grade 7 | 24 | 11% |
| Grade 8 | 23 | 11% |
This year's kindergarten class (31) is 35% larger than its 8th grade class (23).
Student demographics
27%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 47% · STATE 73% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
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MCAP 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 3-4)English Language Arts
17.9%
MD avg 50.6% . +7.0pp since 2023
Math
14.7%
MD avg 34.8% . -2.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 18 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 15 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Maryland schools, those numbers are about 51 and 35. Reading and writing scores are up about 7 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 17.9% | 14.7% |
| 2023-24 | 10.9% | 16.8% |
% Proficient (Levels 3-4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: MCAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
15.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.6%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 15% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 26% typical for Maryland schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Maryland's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Dickey Hill Elementary/Middle
Dickey Hill Elementary/Middle's state test result (15.1% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dickey Hill Elementary/Middle this school | 218 | 82.1% | 15.1% |
| Gardenville Elementary Baltimore | 229 | 83.0% | 20.0% |
| Matthew A. Henson Elementary Baltimore | 199 | 85.9% | 30.4% |
| Creative City Public Charter School Baltimore | 210 | 81.9% | 21.5% |
| Callaway Elementary Baltimore | 231 | 85.3% | 31.9% |
| Dallas F. Nicholas Sr. Elementary Baltimore | 189 | 81.5% | 15.4% |
Matched among Maryland elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Dickey Hill Elementary/Middle ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Baltimore city |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 15.1% | #833 of 853 | #88 of 104 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 14.7% | #806 of 853 ▼ 58 | #85 of 104 ▼ 25 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 17.9% | #825 of 853 ▲ 23 | #86 of 104 ▲ 13 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 218 | #843 of 898 | #95 of 109 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.0:1 | #593 of 857 | #60 of 98 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 27.3% | #751 of 857 | #50 of 98 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 82.1% | #166 of 885 | #50 of 106 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -43.1% | #12 of 551 | #4 of 56 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
218
-68 (-24%) vs 2020
-41% since 1990-91, when it was 371
Student : Teacher
15.0:1
was 13.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 218 | 14.5 | 15.0:1 | 82% (179) |
| 2023-24 | 215 | 18 | 11.9:1 | 80% (171) |
| 2022-23 | 254 | 17 | 14.9:1 | 78% (199) |
| 2020-21 | 286 | 22 | 13.0:1 | 77% (219) |
| 2017-18 | 383 | 20.5 | 18.7:1 | 100% (383) |
| 2015-16 | 347 | 21 | 16.5:1 | 83% (289) |
| 2010-11 | 395 | 26 | 15.2:1 | 93% (368) |
| 2000-01 | 651 | 35 | 18.6:1 | 78% (505) |
| 1990-91 | 371 | 15 | 24.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Dickey Hill Elementary/Middle.
Since 2017-18: students down 43% (383 to 218); teachers down 29% (20.5 to 14.5).
About Dickey Hill Elementary/Middle
Dickey Hill Elementary/Middle is a small elementary school with its address in Baltimore, Maryland. The latest federal count shows 218 students in pre-K through 8. Against the 481-student average for elementary schools in Maryland, enrollment here is 55% lower.
Besides Dickey Hill Elementary/Middle, Baltimore City Public Schools runs 151 other schools. The district enrolls 76,946 students.
Black students make up 84% of enrollment at Dickey Hill Elementary/Middle. Smaller groups are 11% Hispanic and 3% multiracial. For comparison, the population of Baltimore city is roughly 59% Black. Dickey Hill Elementary/Middle's diversity index is 27%, against a US figure of 70%.
Dickey Hill Elementary/Middle employs 14.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 15.0:1. This ratio sits 1.2 above the 13.8:1 average for elementary schools in Maryland. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility was 82% in 2024-25. The gap from the 74% average for public schools in Baltimore city is 8 points.
allk12 grades Dickey Hill Elementary/Middle an F. The grade compares the school only with Maryland public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Dickey Hill Elementary/Middle is 10.6 points below its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests (15.1% versus 25.6%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Maryland.
Baltimore city census figures show that the median household income is $62,177, roughly 36% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. There are 156 public schools in Baltimore city, enrolling about 77,341 students in all.
Baltimore International Academy West is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles away. The five-mile area around Dickey Hill Elementary/Middle holds at least 8 other public schools. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Dickey Hill Elementary/Middle at 8th of 8.
In the federal locale system, Dickey Hill Elementary/Middle is coded City: Large, for schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment is down 24% from 2020-21, when Dickey Hill Elementary/Middle had 286 students, to 2024-25, when it had 218. Its ratio of students to teachers was 13.0:1 in 2020-21, and 15.0:1 in 2024-25.
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Baltimore city at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
573,243
Census ACS
Median income
$62,177
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
15%
Below federal line
Schools in county
156
77,341 students
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Frequently asked questions
About Dickey Hill Elementary/MiddleHow many students attend Dickey Hill Elementary/Middle?
Dickey Hill Elementary/Middle enrolls approximately 218 students in grades PK-08.
What grades does Dickey Hill Elementary/Middle serve?
Dickey Hill Elementary/Middle serves grades PK-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Dickey Hill Elementary/Middle?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Dickey Hill Elementary/Middle is approximately 15.0:1 (15 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Dickey Hill Elementary/Middle?
Student demographics at Dickey Hill Elementary/Middle are roughly 1% White, 11% Hispanic, 84% Black, 3% Two or more.
What district is Dickey Hill Elementary/Middle in?
Dickey Hill Elementary/Middle is part of Baltimore City Public Schools.
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