The Green School of Baltimore

As an one-room-style elementary school in Baltimore, Maryland, The Green School of Baltimore teaches 162 students from grades K through 5, one of the schools within Baltimore City Public Schools. Compared to the state average of about 481 students per school, that is 66% leaner than typical.

Within Baltimore City Public Schools, which oversees 152 schools and 76,946 students, The Green School of Baltimore is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, The Green School of Baltimore logs that the largest single group is White at 49%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 36% Black, 11% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 27%.

On the resource side, On paper, The Green School of Baltimore has 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 33% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than Baltimore city's rate of about 74%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, The Green School of Baltimore performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.9%, the actual is 46.4%, a residual of -8.5 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Baltimore city indicate the typical household earns roughly $62,177 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Across Baltimore city's 156 public schools (combined enrollment of about 77,341 students), The Green School of Baltimore is one campus in the mix.

The Belair-Edison School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, The Green School of Baltimore comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 18.4%.

The campus sits in an urban setting. The Green School of Baltimore is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at The Green School of Baltimore has remained close to its prior level, going from 161 students in 2018 to 162 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share rose from 35% to 49%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.