Robert W. Coleman Elementary

Robert W. Coleman Elementary is a primary school of compact scale in Baltimore, Maryland, overseen by Baltimore City Public Schools, serveing 201 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 58% smaller than the typical public school in Maryland, which averages around 481 students.

Baltimore City Public Schools comprises 152 schools with combined enrollment of 76,946 students; Robert W. Coleman Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Robert W. Coleman Elementary records that 96% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 59%.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.4:1. The state averages about 13.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 92% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Baltimore city's rate of about 74%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Robert W. Coleman Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 20.1%, the actual is 12.0%, a residual of -8.1 points.

In the area at large, census data for Baltimore city shows the typical household earns roughly $62,177 per year, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Baltimore city runs 156 public schools (combined enrollment of about 77,341 students), of which Robert W. Coleman Elementary is one.

Coppin Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Robert W. Coleman Elementary. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Robert W. Coleman Elementary ranks 8th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 24.5%.

Robert W. Coleman Elementary operates from a downtown location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 40%: 336 students in 2018 compared to 201 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.2:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 today.

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