Harford Heights Elementary

Located at 1919 N Broadway Street, in Baltimore, Maryland, Harford Heights Elementary is a medium-sized primary school that serves 435 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within Baltimore City Public Schools.

Baltimore City Public Schools comprises 152 schools with combined enrollment of 76,946 students; Harford Heights Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Harford Heights Elementary logs that 90% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest consists of 7% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 59% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Harford Heights Elementary has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. About 87% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Baltimore city's rate of about 74%.

After controlling for student poverty, Harford Heights Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 22.5%; this one delivers 33.4%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Baltimore city shows the typical household earns roughly $62,177 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Baltimore city runs 156 public schools (combined enrollment of about 77,341 students), of which Harford Heights Elementary is one.

Sharp-Leadenhall Elementary/Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Harford Heights Elementary. On composite proficiency, Harford Heights Elementary comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 14.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 428 students in 2018 compared to 435 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment shrank from 98% to 90% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 in 2025.

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