Graceland Park/O'Donnell Heights Elementary/Middle

Graceland Park/O'Donnell Heights Elementary/Middle is one of the substantial elementary campuss in Baltimore, Maryland, overseen by Baltimore City Public Schools, with 831 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 481 students per school, that is 73% above typical.

Baltimore City Public Schools runs 152 schools in total, collectively educating 76,946 students. Graceland Park/O'Donnell Heights Elementary/Middle is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Graceland Park/O'Donnell Heights Elementary/Middle records that 81% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 12% Black, 5% White. By comparison, Baltimore city as a whole is about 8% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Graceland Park/O'Donnell Heights Elementary/Middle shows 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.6:1. The state averages about 13.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 62% 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 south of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Graceland Park/O'Donnell Heights Elementary/Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.3%, the actual is 24.4%, a residual of -13.0 points.

In the area at large, Baltimore city reports that the typical household earns roughly $62,177 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Graceland Park/O'Donnell Heights Elementary/Middle is one of 156 public schools in Baltimore city (combined enrollment of about 77,341 students).

Nearest neighbor: Holabird Academy, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Graceland Park/O'Donnell Heights Elementary/Middle ranks 4th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 22.6%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 82%: 456 students in 2018 compared to 831 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 65% to 81% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, members of the Graceland Park/O'Donnell Heights Elementary/Middle community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.