The state of Maryland has a new math proficiency test. Thirty-three out of Baltimore’s forty-one public High Schools administered the test in 2023.
According to Project Baltimore, thirteen high schools had zero students pass the test. They did not include Eager Street Academy because it is inside a juvenile detention center. Ironically, they included Joseph C. Briscoe Academy, a tiny “special needs school.”
Discounting the juvenile detention and special needs schools, twelve regular high schools took the test and had zero students pass.
The total student body for these twelve schools is 6,623.
This combined student body is 88.6% Black, 8.4% Latino, 2.3% White, and 0.7% Other.
The new 2024 Baltimore City School budget is a staggering $2.58 Billion. This is a 9% increase over 2023, reaching $23,226 for every anticipated student of all ages in the system.
- Achievement Academy at Harbor City High (95% Black, 4% Hispanic) 411
- ConneXions: A Community Based Arts School (98% Black) 516
- Coppin Academy (98% Black, 1% Hispanic, 1% White) 352
- Edmondson-Westside High (98% Black, 1% Hispanic, 1% White) 881
- Excel Academy at Francis M. Wood High (97% Black, 2% White) 574
- Frederick Douglass High (98% Black, 2% Hispanic) 850
- Joseph C. Briscoe Academy Special Needs School
- Eager Street Academy (91% Black, 6% Hispanic, 3% White) Juvenile Detention
- New Era Academy (76% Black, 18% Hispanic, 5% White) 288
- Patterson High (55% Black, 35% Hispanic, 8% White) 1,049
- Reginald F. Lewis High (84%, 13% Hispanic, 2% White, 1% Asian) 541
- Renaissance Academy (98% Black, 1% Hispanic, 1% White) 245
- The Reach! Partnership School (99% Black, 1% Hispanic) 545
- Vivien T. Thomas Medical Arts Academy (92% Black, 4% White, 3% Latino ) 371
