Federal Hill Preparatory Academy

Federal Hill Preparatory Academy is one of the modestly sized elementary-level communitys in Baltimore, Maryland, part of Baltimore City Public Schools, with 285 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Maryland's public schools average about 481 students each, so Federal Hill Preparatory Academy sits 41% below that benchmark.

Federal Hill Preparatory Academy is one of 152 schools operated by Baltimore City Public Schools, a district that instructs 76,946 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Federal Hill Preparatory Academy lists that the largest single group is Black, at 62% of enrollment; the rest consists of 20% White, 12% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 2% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Around 56% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Baltimore city runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Federal Hill Preparatory Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.0%, the actual is 46.5%, a residual of +5.5 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Baltimore city indicate the typical household earns roughly $62,177 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Federal Hill Preparatory Academy is one of 156 public schools in Baltimore city (combined enrollment of about 77,341 students).

Nearest neighbor: Digital Harbor High School, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Federal Hill Preparatory Academy ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 33.9%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. Federal Hill Preparatory Academy's enrollment has shrank 16% since 2018, when it stood at 339 (now 285). White enrollment moved from 25% to 20% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.