Moravia Park Elementary vs Powhatan Elementary

Moravia Park Elementary holds a 0.2-point overall rating edge over Powhatan Elementary — 8.6/10 versus 8.4/10 — and ranks #137 of 1,363 Maryland schools, compared to Powhatan's #182. Both sit comfortably in the top 15% statewide, but the gap narrows considerably when you dig into the underlying data: these two Baltimore elementary schools, 9.7 miles apart, tell meaningfully different stories depending on which metric matters most to a given family.

On academics, Powhatan Elementary pulls ahead by a significant margin — 8.2/10 versus Moravia Park Elementary's 7.3/10, a 0.9-point difference that reflects stronger measured proficiency outcomes. Growth tells the opposite story: Moravia Park Elementary scores 9.8/10 to Powhatan's 9.6/10, meaning students at Moravia Park are accelerating at a slightly higher rate relative to their starting points. For families weighing absolute achievement against year-over-year momentum, these two schools land on opposite sides of that divide.

The demographic and structural differences are substantial. Moravia Park Elementary enrolls 629 students — nearly three times Powhatan Elementary's 222 — giving Powhatan a considerably smaller-school feel. Moravia Park's student-teacher ratio is 11.9:1 versus Powhatan's 11.1:1, a modest advantage for Powhatan in individual attention. The free and reduced-price lunch gap is the sharpest dividing line: 84% at Moravia Park Elementary versus 61% at Powhatan Elementary, a 23-point spread that signals meaningfully different socioeconomic compositions and the resource and equity contexts each school operates within.

Both schools serve grades PK through 05, so grade span is not a differentiator. Moravia Park's outsized growth score — 9.8/10 — is particularly notable given its higher-need student population, suggesting effective instructional practices at lifting students regardless of where they start.