The Belair-Edison School

Located at 3536 Brehms Lane, in Baltimore, Maryland, The Belair-Edison School is a sizable elementary campus that educates 911 students (grades pre-K through 8), overseen by Baltimore City Public Schools. Compared to the state average of about 481 students per school, that is 89% above typical.

Baltimore City Public Schools runs 152 schools in total, collectively educating 76,946 students. The Belair-Edison School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, The Belair-Edison School reports that nearly all students (91%) are Black. The remainder looks like 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 59% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Around 87% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. 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), The Belair-Edison School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 22.6%; this one delivers 22.2%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Baltimore city) records that the typical household earns roughly $62,177 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Across Baltimore city's 156 public schools (combined enrollment of about 77,341 students), The Belair-Edison School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: The Green School of Baltimore, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around The Belair-Edison School. On composite proficiency, The Belair-Edison School comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 21.7%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting. As a public charter, The Belair-Edison School runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at The Belair-Edison School has rose 34%, going from 680 students in 2018 to 911 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share contracted from 97% to 91%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 20.3:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 in 2025.

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