Sinclair Lane Elementary

Sinclair Lane Elementary is one of the cozy elementary-level communitys in Baltimore, Maryland, overseen by Baltimore City Public Schools, with 269 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 44% below the state mean of about 481.

Within Baltimore City Public Schools, which oversees 152 schools and 76,946 students, Sinclair Lane Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Sinclair Lane Elementary logs that nearly all students (87%) are Black; the rest looks like 10% Hispanic. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 59%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.4:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 87% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Baltimore city runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Sinclair Lane Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 23.0%; this one delivers 15.7%.

Across the wider county, census data for Baltimore city shows median household income runs about $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%. Sinclair Lane Elementary is one of 156 public schools in Baltimore city (combined enrollment of about 77,341 students).

Nearest neighbor: The Belair-Edison School, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Sinclair Lane Elementary comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 29.0%.

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

Trend over the last 7 years. Sinclair Lane Elementary's enrollment has declined 27% since 2018, when it stood at 366 (now 269). Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 1% to 10%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 19.8:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 in 2025.

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