Garrett Heights Elementary/Middle

Garrett Heights Elementary/Middle is one of the cozy primary schools in Baltimore, Maryland, overseen by Baltimore City Public Schools, with 320 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 33% smaller than the state mean of about 481.

Across the 152 schools in Baltimore City Public Schools (76,946 students total), Garrett Heights Elementary/Middle accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Garrett Heights Elementary/Middle shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (86%); the rest reads as 6% White, 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Baltimore city as a whole is about 59% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.3:1. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 74% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Garrett Heights Elementary/Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 30.4%; this one delivers 18.2%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Baltimore city) logs that median household income runs about $62,177, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Garrett Heights Elementary/Middle is one of 156 public schools in Baltimore city (combined enrollment of about 77,341 students).

The closest other public school is City Neighbors High, roughly 0.8 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Garrett Heights Elementary/Middle comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 33.3%.

Garrett Heights Elementary/Middle operates from a city-core location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Garrett Heights Elementary/Middle's enrollment has decreased 18% since 2018, when it stood at 389 (now 320). Class-load math has fell: from 20.5:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Garrett Heights Elementary/Middle community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.