Sandtown-Winchester Achievement Academy

Set in Baltimore, Maryland, Sandtown-Winchester Achievement Academy is a reasonably sized elementary school, overseen by Baltimore City Public Schools. It hosts 410 students across grades pre-K through 8.

Baltimore City Public Schools comprises 152 schools with combined enrollment of 76,946 students; Sandtown-Winchester Achievement Academy is among them.

In terms of who attends, Sandtown-Winchester Achievement Academy records that nearly all students (98%) are Black. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 59%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 95% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Baltimore city runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Sandtown-Winchester Achievement Academy performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 17.9%, the actual is 14.3%, a residual of -3.6 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Baltimore city put median household earnings sit near $62,177, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Sandtown-Winchester Achievement Academy is one of 156 public schools in Baltimore city (combined enrollment of about 77,341 students).

Nearest neighbor: New Song Academy, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Sandtown-Winchester Achievement Academy. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Sandtown-Winchester Achievement Academy at 6th of 8; the average score across the group is 18.9%.

Sandtown-Winchester Achievement Academy operates from a high-density location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 56%: 263 students in 2018 compared to 410 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, members of the Sandtown-Winchester Achievement Academy community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.