Morrell Park Elementary/Middle

Morrell Park Elementary/Middle is an elementary campus of moderately sized scale in Baltimore, Maryland, one of the schools within Baltimore City Public Schools, teacheing 451 students in grades pre-K through 8.

Across the 152 schools in Baltimore City Public Schools (76,946 students total), Morrell Park Elementary/Middle accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Morrell Park Elementary/Middle lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 23% White, 22% Black, 6% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 8%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.3:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 70% of students at Morrell Park Elementary/Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Morrell Park Elementary/Middle tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 32.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 24.0%.

Across the wider county, Baltimore city reports that median household earnings sit near $62,177, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Across Baltimore city's 156 public schools (combined enrollment of about 77,341 students), Morrell Park Elementary/Middle is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Westport Academy, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Morrell Park Elementary/Middle comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 21.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Five-year trend. Morrell Park Elementary/Middle's enrollment has expanded 6% since 2018, when it stood at 424 (now 451). Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 13% to 47%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 18.4:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 today.

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