Park Heights Academy

Located at 2835 Virginia Avenue, in Baltimore, Maryland, Park Heights Academy is a close-knit K-5 school that teaches 390 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within Baltimore City Public Schools.

Park Heights Academy is one of 152 schools operated by Baltimore City Public Schools, a district that educates 76,946 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Park Heights Academy records that 86% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 9% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 59% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Park Heights Academy lists 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.7:1. The state averages about 13.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 90% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Baltimore city runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Park Heights Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 21.0%, the actual is 18.4%, a residual of -2.5 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Baltimore city put the typical household earns roughly $62,177 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Park Heights Academy is one of 156 public schools in Baltimore city (combined enrollment of about 77,341 students).

Nearest neighbor: Pimlico Elementary/Middle, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Park Heights Academy ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 35.0%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Five-year trend. Park Heights Academy's enrollment has edged up 33% since 2018, when it stood at 293 (now 390). The Black share of enrollment contracted from 96% to 86% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 today.

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