Montebello Elementary/Middle

Montebello Elementary/Middle operates as a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in Baltimore, Maryland, one of the schools within Baltimore City Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 542 students spanning grades pre-K through 8.

Baltimore City Public Schools runs 152 schools in total, collectively educating 76,946 students. Montebello Elementary/Middle is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Montebello Elementary/Middle shows that 93% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder breaks down as 5% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 59%.

On the resource side, On paper, Montebello Elementary/Middle has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Around 89% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Baltimore city (around 74%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Montebello Elementary/Middle tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 21.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 21.8%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Baltimore city) logs that the typical household earns roughly $62,177 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Montebello Elementary/Middle is one of 156 public schools in Baltimore city (combined enrollment of about 77,341 students).

Mergenthaler Vocational-Technical High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Montebello Elementary/Middle at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 24.3%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Montebello Elementary/Middle's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 539 (now 542). Class-load math has tightened: from 18.6:1 in 2018 to 16.2:1 in 2025.

On the community side, the feed for Montebello Elementary/Middle typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.