1
Which teacher or staff member at Mary E. Rodman Elementary deserves more recognition?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Enrollment
431
Elementary
DISTRICT 466 · STATE 481
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BALTIMORE CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240009000277
Mary E. Rodman Elementary
3510 W Mulberry Street, Baltimore, MD 21229 · (410) 396-0508 · Baltimore city
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL431 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 17% of Maryland public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Maryland public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.7:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.4:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
87%
373 students
DISTRICT 76% · STATE 54%
Community
4
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 40 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 65 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 52 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 67 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 71 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 73 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 63 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (65) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (63).
Student demographics
16%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 47% · STATE 73% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
MCAP 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 3-4)English Language Arts
28.3%
MD avg 50.6% . +9.6pp since 2023
Math
31.8%
MD avg 34.8% . +18.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 28 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 32 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Maryland schools, those numbers are about 51 and 35. Reading and writing scores are up about 10 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 19 points.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 28.3% | 31.8% |
| 2023-24 | 18.7% | 13.3% |
% Proficient (Levels 3-4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: MCAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
23.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
23.0%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 23% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 23% typical for Maryland schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Maryland's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Mary E. Rodman Elementary
Mary E. Rodman Elementary's state test result (23.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mary E. Rodman Elementary this school | 431 | 86.5% | 23.0% |
| Harford Heights Elementary Baltimore | 435 | 87.4% | 33.4% |
| Arundel Elementary Baltimore | 434 | 87.8% | N/A |
| City Springs Elementary/Middle Baltimore | 483 | 88.2% | 24.6% |
| Park Heights Academy Baltimore | 390 | 90.0% | 18.4% |
| Dorothy I. Height Elementary Baltimore | 435 | 88.3% | 14.3% |
Matched among Maryland elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Mary E. Rodman Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Baltimore city |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 23.0% | #751 of 853 | #56 of 104 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 31.8% | #567 of 853 ▲ 228 | #31 of 104 ▲ 46 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 28.3% | #741 of 853 ▲ 49 | #59 of 104 ▲ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 431 | #544 of 898 | #53 of 109 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.7:1 | #397 of 857 | #38 of 98 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 15.7% | #818 of 857 | #75 of 98 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 86.5% | #128 of 885 | #27 of 106 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +47.6% | #17 of 294 | #10 of 45 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
431
+19 (+5%) vs 2020
-42% since 1990-91, when it was 746
Student : Teacher
13.7:1
was 19.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 431 | 31.5 | 13.7:1 | 87% (373) |
| 2023-24 | 424 | 27 | 15.7:1 | 89% (376) |
| 2022-23 | 392 | 24 | 16.3:1 | 88% (345) |
| 2020-21 | 412 | 21 | 19.6:1 | 87% (358) |
| 2017-18 | 292 | 17 | 17.2:1 | 100% (292) |
| 2015-16 | 254 | 14 | 18.1:1 | 98% (250) |
| 2010-11 | 314 | 22 | 14.3:1 | 93% (293) |
| 2000-01 | 507 | 30 | 16.9:1 | 96% (489) |
| 1990-91 | 746 | 35 | 21.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Mary E. Rodman Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 48% (292 to 431); teachers up 85% (17 to 31.5).
About Mary E. Rodman Elementary
Mary E. Rodman Elementary is a public elementary school run by Baltimore City Public Schools in Baltimore, Maryland. Students in pre-K through 5 attend the school, which enrolls 431 students.
The district for Mary E. Rodman Elementary is Baltimore City Public Schools, with 152 schools and 76,946 students.
Mary E. Rodman Elementary's enrollment is 92% Black. The school is also 5% Hispanic and 3% multiracial. That is higher than the 59% Black share among all Baltimore city residents. The school's diversity index is 16%, meaning two students picked at random have a 16% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
The school's student-to-teacher ratio is about 13.7:1, with 31.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. That is close to the 13.8:1 average for elementary schools in Maryland. Lunch subsidy eligibility at Mary E. Rodman Elementary is 87%. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Baltimore city is 74%.
allk12 grades Mary E. Rodman Elementary a C-. The grade compares the school only with Maryland public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Mary E. Rodman Elementary would score about 23.0%. It scores 23.0%, within a point of that figure.
Baltimore city census figures show that the median household income is $62,177, roughly 36% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. There are 156 public schools in Baltimore city, enrolling about 77,341 students in all.
Green Street Academy is the public school closest to Mary E. Rodman Elementary, about 0.4 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Mary E. Rodman Elementary is 2nd of 9 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
Federal data place Mary E. Rodman Elementary in the City: Large locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment at Mary E. Rodman Elementary climbed 5% between 2020-21 and 2024-25, from 412 to 431 students. Its ratio of students to teachers was 19.6:1 in 2020-21, and 13.7:1 in 2024-25.
The Mary E. Rodman Elementary community page is open for posts about sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Baltimore city at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
573,243
Census ACS
Median income
$62,177
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
15%
Below federal line
Schools in county
156
77,341 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Baltimore City Public Schools
- Mergenthaler Vocational-Technical HighHigh · 1,714 students
- Baltimore Polytechnic InstituteHigh · 1,632 students
- Baltimore City CollegeHigh · 1,470 students
- KIPP Harmony AcademyElementary · 1,399 students
- Roland Park Elementary/MiddleElementary · 1,371 students
- Digital Harbor High SchoolHigh · 1,359 students
Other schools in Baltimore
- Dundalk HighHigh · 2,087 students
- Perry Hall HighHigh · 2,012 students
- Woodlawn HighHigh · 1,922 students
- Kenwood HighHigh · 1,900 students
- Parkville HighHigh · 1,877 students
- Catonsville HighHigh · 1,735 students
Nearby schools
- Green Street Academy0.4 mi · 808
- Wildwood Elementary/Middle0.4 mi · 743
- Edmondson-Westside High0.6 mi · 910
- Belmont Elementary0.8 mi · 177
- The Seed School of Maryland0.9 mi · 395
- Baltimore International Academy West1.0 mi · 239
Frequently asked questions
About Mary E. Rodman ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Mary E. Rodman Elementary?
Mary E. Rodman Elementary enrolls approximately 431 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Mary E. Rodman Elementary serve?
Mary E. Rodman Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Mary E. Rodman Elementary?
Approximately 13.7:1 students per teacher at Mary E. Rodman Elementary.
How diverse is Mary E. Rodman Elementary?
Mary E. Rodman Elementary reports a student body of 1% White, 5% Hispanic, 92% Black, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees Mary E. Rodman Elementary?
Mary E. Rodman Elementary is overseen by Baltimore City Public Schools in Baltimore city.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.