Waverly Elementary/Middle

As a medium-sized elementary school in Baltimore, Maryland, Waverly Elementary/Middle enrolls 534 students from grades pre-K through 8, part of Baltimore City Public Schools.

Baltimore City Public Schools comprises 152 schools with combined enrollment of 76,946 students; Waverly Elementary/Middle is among them.

Looking at the student body, Waverly Elementary/Middle reports that nearly all students (90%) are Black. The remainder consists of 7% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 59% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.4:1. The state averages about 13.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 82% of students at Waverly Elementary/Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Baltimore city runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Waverly Elementary/Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.6%, the actual is 25.6%, a residual of +0.0 points.

Around the school, census data for Baltimore city shows 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), Waverly Elementary/Middle is one campus in the mix.

Abbottston Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Waverly Elementary/Middle comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 21.4%.

Waverly Elementary/Middle operates from a downtown location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Waverly Elementary/Middle has edged down 17%, going from 640 students in 2018 to 534 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 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.