Holabird Academy

Holabird Academy is an elementary campus of medium-sized scale in Baltimore, Maryland, overseen by Baltimore City Public Schools, educateing 650 students in grades pre-K through 8. By comparison, Maryland's public schools average about 481 students each, so Holabird Academy sits 35% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 152 schools in Baltimore City Public Schools (76,946 students total), Holabird Academy accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Holabird Academy records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 61% of enrollment. The remainder breaks down as 32% Black, 4% White, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 8% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Holabird Academy lists 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Roughly 75% of students at Holabird Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Holabird Academy sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 29.9%; actual is 13.6%, a gap of -16.3 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Baltimore city) reports that median household income runs about $62,177, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Across Baltimore city's 156 public schools (combined enrollment of about 77,341 students), Holabird Academy is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Graceland Park/O'Donnell Heights Elementary/Middle, 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), Holabird Academy ranks 8th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 24.1%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 38%: 470 students in 2018 compared to 650 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 40% to 61% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 today.

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