Eager Street Academy

Eager Street Academy is a high school of micro-enrollment scale in Baltimore, Maryland, operated by Baltimore City Public Schools, instructing 45 students in grades 6 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 96% smaller than the state mean of about 1,185.

Within Baltimore City Public Schools, which oversees 152 schools and 76,946 students, Eager Street Academy is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Eager Street Academy lists that 89% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest breaks down as 4% multiracial, 2% White, 2% Hispanic, 2% Asian. By comparison, Baltimore city as a whole is about 59% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Eager Street Academy reports 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 4.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.3:1 average. About 58% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Baltimore city (around 74%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Baltimore city) shows that median household income runs about $62,177, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. In all, Baltimore city runs 156 public schools (combined enrollment of about 77,341 students), of which Eager Street Academy is one.

Johnston Square Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Eager Street Academy.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

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