Hazelwood Elementary/Middle

Located at 4517 Hazelwood Avenue, in Baltimore, Maryland, Hazelwood Elementary/Middle is a moderately sized primary school that works with 524 students (grades pre-K through 8), run under Baltimore City Public Schools.

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

On demographics, Hazelwood Elementary/Middle logs that 85% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 10% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 59% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 82% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Baltimore city (around 74%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Hazelwood Elementary/Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.4%, the actual is 29.0%, a residual of +3.5 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Baltimore city indicate 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. Hazelwood Elementary/Middle is one of 156 public schools in Baltimore city (combined enrollment of about 77,341 students).

Nearest neighbor: Baltimore International Academy, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hazelwood Elementary/Middle ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 31.3%.

Hazelwood Elementary/Middle operates from a downtown location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 13%: 465 students in 2018 compared to 524 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share edged down from 92% to 85%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 in 2025.

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