Northwest Academy of Health Sciences

Set in Baltimore, Maryland, Northwest Academy of Health Sciences is a moderately sized intermediate school, one of the schools within Baltimore County Public Schools. It instructs 808 students across grades 6 through 8.

Baltimore County Public Schools runs 177 schools in total, collectively educating 110,872 students. Northwest Academy of Health Sciences is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Northwest Academy of Health Sciences lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (90%). Beyond that, the school shows 5% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 31% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Northwest Academy of Health Sciences logs 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 69% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Baltimore County (around 53%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Northwest Academy of Health Sciences tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 33.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 23.0%.

Across the wider county, census data for Baltimore County shows the typical household earns roughly $91,768 per year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Northwest Academy of Health Sciences is one of 180 public schools in Baltimore County (combined enrollment of about 110,872 students).

Nearest neighbor: Scotts Branch Elementary, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Northwest Academy of Health Sciences comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 35.4%.

Northwest Academy of Health Sciences operates from a residential location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Northwest Academy of Health Sciences has expanded 3%, going from 785 students in 2018 to 808 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 in 2025.

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