Dickey Hill Elementary/Middle

Located at 5025 Dickey Hill Road, in Baltimore, Maryland, Dickey Hill Elementary/Middle is a low-enrollment primary school that enrolls 218 students (grades pre-K through 8), operated by Baltimore City Public Schools. By comparison, Maryland's public schools average about 481 students each, so Dickey Hill Elementary/Middle sits 55% below that benchmark.

Across the 152 schools in Baltimore City Public Schools (76,946 students total), Dickey Hill Elementary/Middle accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Dickey Hill Elementary/Middle lists that nearly all students (84%) are Black. The remainder consists of 11% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. 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 15.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. An estimated 82% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Baltimore city (around 74%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Dickey Hill Elementary/Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.6%, the actual is 15.1%, a residual of -10.6 points.

Around the school, Baltimore city reports that the typical household earns roughly $62,177 per year, 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 Dickey Hill Elementary/Middle is one.

Baltimore International Academy West is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Dickey Hill Elementary/Middle comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 27.4%.

Dickey Hill Elementary/Middle operates from a metropolitan location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Dickey Hill Elementary/Middle has contracted 43%, going from 383 students in 2018 to 218 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share decreased from 96% to 84%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 18.7:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 in 2025.

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