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My son attended Digital Harbor HS in Fed Hill. I found it interesting that even though the neighborhood is 75% white, the school was closer to 75% African American. It was a decent school, though not perfect, but his teachers were involved and made efforts to ensure the students remained engaged. Like my son, it appears most of that school’s students are from other parts of town.

My working theory, which this admittedly small data point supports, is that those who can afford it will either send their children to private schools or move to the suburbs once they’re able to, perhaps moving back once their children are grown. The school he attended in AACO wasn’t any better, actually, but was in a highly rated district by GreatSchools. His best educational foundation came from when we were stationed in Hawaii and he attended local schools, which were also rated by GS as about the same as most of Baltimore’s.

Here’s the thing: good schooling is a combination of the school’s resources, the teachers’ abilities, and most importantly, parental involvement. If their parents aren’t involved, the kid is less likely to be engaged and will learn nothing even if they graduate from an Ivy League school. See our last president for example.

One problem in Hawaii, which I suspect Baltimore may also have, is a feeling by many that education was less important than getting a job to support one’s own less affluent family; after all, it was very difficult to rise into the middle class there without connections or money. So why bother when putting food on the table today is most important?

I’m fortunate that my son didn’t have to work while he was in high school and I even had him quit his job when it began to affect his grades and attendance, but not every family has this luxury.

So I think part of the solution for Baltimore is, how can we stress the importance of education to our own residents, and get the community involved in its own education? How can we incentivize higher performance in school as a long term investment in our own children? For some, that may require better government efforts at eliminating poverty and supporting struggling middle class families.

Wait till you hear about the goats

what kinda music do you like

I could be wrong here, but I think it gets a C- because it is only considering public schools, it doesn't take into account the Baltimore School Choice program, and I'm also not sure how it determines the school it rates the score on.

Assuming it works directionally like GreatSchools/Zillow... It will tell you schools in Wyman Park get a 6/10 for Elementary/Middle and then a 1/10 for high school. That would put you somewhere in C- territory.

So yeah. Not ideal. All of these websites would potentially scare prospects looking to move to these neighborhoods with families...

I don't know that it tells us anything about the sub's politics. Based on where it tells us users live and spend their time, I'd go so far as to say most are white, but it doesn't say anything about that definitively.

I think what that map does tell us is that users overwhelmingly live and spend their time in the affluent neighborhoods in green on the Niche map. More importantly, though, consider all of the discussion in r/baltimore on the problems facing communities in the east and west of the city. I think that that map is evidence that users overwhelmingly don't visit those parts of town, most of them ever, which calls into question how useful their perspectives are.

Like, people in this thread are calling this a redlining map, and that could be very true, but have you tried mapping out where you spend your time and money? Evidently, it might look just like this.

It's "really close" to Hampden in some kind of global sense, but it's not really close like you're walking to Golden West on Wednesday at 6 PM to get a burrito (even though you could).

That said, I like that area from Druid Hill going west. I don't know the neighborhood boundaries perfectly, but those places on Hilton along the lake are awesome. Seems like you could walk to the Shoprite or Druid Hill, which is nice and you have the other park/lake right there.

"overwhelmingly" they did not say all.
I'm going to guess they probably used a roller at minimum vs a brush. Here's some handy tips for future painting.

https://www.familyhandyman.com/project/painting-tips-how-to-paint-faster/

Mobtown in brewers hill.

I took a ride on a Coast Guard cutter as they placed the FSK Buoy and went under the bridge. Kind of a long video mostly because of a speech later in the video but you can see this area from the water here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=babQeqzDFz4

Wow. Did you get that brush a Home Depot? You can paint a whole room with one stroke

This podcast digs into why it's so divided: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-51-the-arsenal-of-exclusion/

Its a massive simplification to just call this a redlining map. When baltimore was redlined lower park heights had a higher score than federal hill and canton. Redlining was mostly about how small the houses were.

Before the fair housing act it was legal to discriminate by race in real estate.

There is a group that weeds/cleans up streets in Canton, a group that magnet-fishes metal from the harbor, volunteer at your local food pantry, there are book clubs, game nights at the game store in Canton, more volo leagues (keep trying!). The more you put yourself out there the better your chances of finding people to hang with. It’s not the easiest thing to do, but don’t give up!

Lol nailed it

The city doesn’t suffer from poverty. People in poverty suffer but Baltimore median income is higher than the national average and poverty rate is better than cities bigger than Baltimore like Philly.

Well they’re not. But do you

So what? Let people like things.

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Wyman Park gets an A+ for nightlife but a C- for public schools despite being served predominantly by some of the best in the city? lol wut?

This makes sense! I was really confused by some of these ratings!

I only use theaterm "war zone" when there's literally burned out cars on cinderblocks, derelict high rises covered in graffiti, and the businesses keep their doors locked.

yeesh

Are there ways for an average person to get more info on "high growth" schools?