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Fallstaff Elementary/Middle
Test scores
MCAP 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 3-4)What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 23 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 24 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Maryland schools, those numbers are about 51 and 35. Reading and writing scores are down about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 23% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 39% typical for Maryland schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Fallstaff Elementary/Middle
Fallstaff Elementary/Middle is one of the mid-tier elementary campuss in Baltimore, Maryland, one of the schools within Baltimore City Public Schools, with 611 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Maryland's public schools average about 481 students each, so Fallstaff Elementary/Middle sits 27% larger than that benchmark.
Baltimore City Public Schools runs 152 schools in total, collectively educating 76,946 students. Fallstaff Elementary/Middle is one of those campuses.
In terms of who attends, Fallstaff Elementary/Middle records that 62% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school shows 36% Black. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 8%.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Fallstaff Elementary/Middle has 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.2:1. The state averages about 13.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 59% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than Baltimore city's rate of about 74%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Fallstaff Elementary/Middle falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 39.2%; this one comes in at 23.4%, -15.7 points off the demographic line.
Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Baltimore city) shows that the typical household earns roughly $62,177 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 Fallstaff Elementary/Middle is one.
Nearest neighbor: Cross Country Elementary/Middle, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Fallstaff Elementary/Middle. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Fallstaff Elementary/Middle at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 31.1%.
Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Fallstaff Elementary/Middle has grew 25%, going from 488 students in 2018 to 611 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 40% to 62% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 in 2025.
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