Empowerment Academy

Set in Baltimore, Maryland, Empowerment Academy is a close-knit elementary-level community, overseen by Baltimore City Public Schools. It teaches 344 students across grades pre-K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 481 students per school, that is 28% leaner than typical.

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

On demographics, Empowerment Academy reports that 97% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 59%.

In terms of school funding signals, Empowerment Academy shows 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. About 80% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Empowerment Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.1%, the actual is 35.6%, a residual of +8.6 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Baltimore city put the typical household earns roughly $62,177 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Across Baltimore city's 156 public schools (combined enrollment of about 77,341 students), Empowerment Academy is one campus in the mix.

Katherine Johnson Global Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Empowerment Academy. On composite proficiency, Empowerment Academy comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 20.5%.

Empowerment Academy operates from a metropolitan location. Empowerment Academy is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Looking at the recent track record. Empowerment Academy's enrollment has expanded 37% since 2018, when it stood at 252 (now 344). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 today.

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