Yorkwood Elementary

Set in Baltimore, Maryland, Yorkwood Elementary is a small K-5 school, run under Baltimore City Public Schools. It educates 294 students across grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 481 students per school, that is 39% below typical.

Baltimore City Public Schools runs 152 schools in total, collectively educating 76,946 students. Yorkwood Elementary is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Yorkwood Elementary shows that 93% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 4% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. By comparison, Baltimore city as a whole is about 59% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Yorkwood Elementary has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.3:1. The state averages about 13.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 82% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Baltimore city (around 74%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Yorkwood Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.7%, the actual is 26.8%, a residual of +1.0 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Baltimore city) reports that median household income runs about $62,177, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. In all, Baltimore city runs 156 public schools (combined enrollment of about 77,341 students), of which Yorkwood Elementary is one.

Reginald F. Lewis High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Yorkwood Elementary. On composite proficiency, Yorkwood Elementary comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 26.6%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 32%: 430 students in 2018 compared to 294 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 21.5:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.