Highlandtown Elementary/Middle #237

Set in Baltimore, Maryland, Highlandtown Elementary/Middle #237 is a large K-5 school, overseen by Baltimore City Public Schools. It works with 899 students across grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Maryland's public schools average about 481 students each, so Highlandtown Elementary/Middle #237 sits 87% above that benchmark.

Highlandtown Elementary/Middle #237 is one of 152 schools operated by Baltimore City Public Schools, a district that teaches 76,946 students overall.

On demographics, Highlandtown Elementary/Middle #237 logs that nearly all students (88%) are Hispanic. Beyond that, the school logs 8% Black. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 8%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Highlandtown Elementary/Middle #237 higher than the state norm the norm. Around 66% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Highlandtown Elementary/Middle #237 sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 35.1%; actual is 12.7%, a gap of -22.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Baltimore city indicate median household earnings sit near $62,177, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Highlandtown Elementary/Middle #237 is one of 156 public schools in Baltimore city (combined enrollment of about 77,341 students).

Nearest neighbor: Highlandtown Elementary/Middle #215, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Highlandtown Elementary/Middle #237 comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 30.4%.

Highlandtown Elementary/Middle #237 operates from an inner-city location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Highlandtown Elementary/Middle #237 has climbed 19%, going from 757 students in 2018 to 899 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 71% to 88% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 17.6:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 in 2025.

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