Frederick Elementary

Located at 2501 Frederick Avenue, in Baltimore, Maryland, Frederick Elementary is a tight-knit K-5 school that educates 320 students (grades pre-K through 5), part of Baltimore City Public Schools. By comparison, Maryland's public schools average about 481 students each, so Frederick Elementary sits 33% below that benchmark.

Baltimore City Public Schools runs 152 schools in total, collectively educating 76,946 students. Frederick Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Frederick Elementary lists that 75% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest looks like 16% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 4% White. 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, On paper, Frederick Elementary has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. About 89% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Baltimore city runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Frederick Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 21.7%; this one delivers 11.2%.

Around the school, census data for Baltimore city shows median household income runs about $62,177, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Frederick Elementary is one of 156 public schools in Baltimore city (combined enrollment of about 77,341 students).

Nearest neighbor: The Seed School of Maryland, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Frederick Elementary. On composite proficiency, Frederick Elementary comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 20.4%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting. Frederick Elementary operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 31%: 466 students in 2018 compared to 320 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 3% to 16% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 19.4:1 in 2018 to 16.0:1 today.

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