Woodlawn High

Woodlawn High operates as a well-populated high school in Baltimore, Maryland, part of Baltimore County Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 1,922 students spanning grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Maryland's public schools average about 1,185 students each, so Woodlawn High sits 62% above that benchmark.

Baltimore County Public Schools comprises 177 schools with combined enrollment of 110,872 students; Woodlawn High is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Woodlawn High records that 67% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest looks like 22% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 31% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 120 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.3:1, putting Woodlawn High higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 66% of students at Woodlawn High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Baltimore County's rate of about 53%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Woodlawn High falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 35.5%; this one comes in at 22.3%, -13.2 points off the demographic line.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Baltimore County) shows that median household income runs about $91,768, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Baltimore County's 180 public schools (combined enrollment of about 110,872 students), Woodlawn High is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Southwest EDLP at Woodlawn High School, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Woodlawn High comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 33.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Over the past 7-year window. Woodlawn High's enrollment has climbed 30% since 2018, when it stood at 1,479 (now 1,922). Over the same period, the Black share fell from 78% to 67%.

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