Furman Templeton Preparatory Academy

Furman Templeton Preparatory Academy is one of the mid-tier primary schools in Baltimore, Maryland, run under Baltimore City Public Schools, with 433 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Baltimore City Public Schools comprises 152 schools with combined enrollment of 76,946 students; Furman Templeton Preparatory Academy is among them.

On demographics, Furman Templeton Preparatory Academy reports that nearly all students (97%) are Black. By comparison, Baltimore city as a whole is about 59% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Furman Templeton Preparatory Academy records 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Furman Templeton Preparatory Academy higher than the state norm the norm. Around 93% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Baltimore city (around 74%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Furman Templeton Preparatory Academy sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 19.3%; this one delivers 20.6%.

In the area at large, census data for Baltimore city shows the typical household earns roughly $62,177 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Baltimore city's 156 public schools (combined enrollment of about 77,341 students), Furman Templeton Preparatory Academy is one campus in the mix.

The Historic Samuel Coleridge-Taylor 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 Furman Templeton Preparatory Academy. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Furman Templeton Preparatory Academy ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 16.9%.

The school occupies a city-core site. Furman Templeton Preparatory Academy is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Furman Templeton Preparatory Academy has shrank 11%, going from 488 students in 2018 to 433 in 2025.

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