Mary E. Rodman Elementary

Set in Baltimore, Maryland, Mary E. Rodman Elementary is a mid-sized elementary campus, part of Baltimore City Public Schools. It caters to 431 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Baltimore City Public Schools runs 152 schools in total, collectively educating 76,946 students. Mary E. Rodman Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Mary E. Rodman Elementary records that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (92%); the rest breaks down as 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Baltimore city as a whole is about 59% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.7:1. The state averages about 13.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 87% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Baltimore city's rate of about 74%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Mary E. Rodman Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 23.0%, the actual is 23.0%, a residual of +0.0 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Baltimore city put median household earnings sit near $62,177, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Baltimore city's 156 public schools (combined enrollment of about 77,341 students), Mary E. Rodman Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Green Street Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Mary E. Rodman Elementary comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 20.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Five-year trend. Mary E. Rodman Elementary's enrollment has ticked up 48% since 2018, when it stood at 292 (now 431). Black enrollment moved from 97% to 92% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 in 2025.

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