Violetville Elementary/Middle

Violetville Elementary/Middle is one of the low-enrollment elementary schools in Baltimore, Maryland, operated by Baltimore City Public Schools, with 302 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 37% below 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; Violetville Elementary/Middle is among them.

On demographics, Violetville Elementary/Middle shows that the most-represented group is Black (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 21% Hispanic, 19% White, 8% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 59% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably less Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 79% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Violetville Elementary/Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 27.2%; this one delivers 26.0%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Baltimore city indicate median household income runs about $62,177, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Baltimore city's 156 public schools (combined enrollment of about 77,341 students), Violetville Elementary/Middle is one campus in the mix.

The Seed School of Maryland is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Violetville Elementary/Middle at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 18.0%.

Violetville Elementary/Middle operates from an urban location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 28%: 420 students in 2018 compared to 302 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 36% to 19%. Class-load math has rose: from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 18.3:1 in 2025.

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