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The Baltimore School System

Baltimore, Maryland, is a diverse seaport city with a population of approximately 621,000 people. The metro area has a population of more than 2.7 million. The majority of Baltimore’s 80,500 public school students attend one of the 177 schools in the Baltimore City Public School district.

Varsity Tutors can help your student achieve academic success from their first day of kindergarten through the last semester of college. Parents always want what’s best for their children, and in many cases that may mean securing extra academic help in the form of a knowledgeable Baltimore tutor. Varsity Tutors helps you find the right tutor for your needs.

One way students can benefit from tutoring is learning how to be more successful on standardized tests. To see how well Baltimore schools are preparing their students for state assessments, review the chart below.

Baltimore Test Scores

Baltimore tutors can help students shine on standardized exams such as the ACT, SAT, GRE, LSAT, and other admissions tests. They also help students prepare for state assessments, including the MSA (Maryland School Assessment) tests in reading and math, which are taken by students annually in grades 3-8, as well as the MISA (Maryland Integrated Science Assessment) that students take in grades 5 and 8, as well as in high school.

Taking standardized tests requires both knowledge of the subject and test-taking skills, and a tutor in Baltimore can help your students develop both. Tutors are also able to guide students who are having difficulty with specific school subjects, but they can also work on general study and organizational skills that can benefit students in all their academic endeavors now and for years to come. Tutors use information like your child’s strengths and weaknesses, interests, goals, and preferred learning style to develop customized lessons that meet your child’s unique needs.

Baltimore provides its public students with a good education. The table below provides a breakdown of how well the best Baltimore high schools are doing compared to the rest of the public schools in Maryland.

Baltimore High School Rankings

High School	Baltimore Ranking	State Ranking	AP Pass Rate
Baltimore Polytechnic Institute	1	28	32%
Baltimore School for the Arts	2	61	0%
Baltimore City College	3	70	27%
Wililam S Baer School	4	81	NA
Independence Local High School	5	NA	NA

Baltimore schools have an average classroom size of 18 students, which is a bit higher than the state average of 15. Some students need more personal attention than their teacher can provide to thrive academically, no matter how small their class size is. You can see the student-teacher ratios for the busiest schools in Baltimore below.

Baltimore Student-to-Teacher Ratios

Mergenthaler Vocational-Technical High School has a 16 1 student-teacher ratio.

Baltimore Polytechnic Institute has a 20 1 student-teacher ratio.

Digital Harbor High School has a 18 1 student-teacher ratio.

Baltimore City College has a 18 1 student-teacher ratio.

Frederick Douglass High School has a 18 1 student-teacher ratio.

Maryland State Average has a 15 1 student-teacher ratio.

Baltimore high school graduates who prefer to attend a post-secondary institute close to home have several good options, including the highly lauded Johns Hopkins University. See the following table for a breakdown of how the top area colleges rank.

Baltimore University Rankings

College	National Rank	Acceptance Rate
John's Hopkins University	54	13%
Loyola University Maryland	221	66%
University of Maryland - Baltimore County	312	56%
Towson University	333	74%
University of Baltimore	378	49%
Goucher College	702	79%
Notre Dame of Maryland University	862	59%
Stevenson University	NA	61%
Maryland Institute College of Art	NA	56%
Morgan State University	NA	60%

How Varsity Tutors Can Help

Varsity Tutors assists parents by connecting them with the most qualified tutors in Baltimore. These tutors offer flexibility in scheduling and can meet when it’s most convenient for your family. Tutors are also able to meet with your child in person at your home or another location, or online through our secure live learning platform. Contact Varsity Tutors today to get started.

Recent Tutoring Session Reviews

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"Today the student and I reviewed factoring binomials of special cases and trinomials. Then we discussed how to solve quadratic equations, such as: 1. guess, 2. factoring, 3. quadratic formula and 4. completing the square. Then we went over how to solve quadratic-like equations that have exponents bigger than a square. We did a lot of practice problems and ended the session by playing a math game involving logic."

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"We took a break from Math and worked on the section the student liked most: reading comprehension. In fact, she did extremely well on this section, with the exception of poetry. The student tends to rush into answers without thinking it through, so we are taking steps to correct that. "

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"Review: vector addition, decomposition of vectors, & trigonometric rules. Electrostatics: origin of electromagnetic phenomena and classification of materials, charge conservation, Coulomb's Law, electric fields, field lines, charge distributions, example problems."

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"Began working through the study guide for the student's physics final. We focused on problems involving kinematics (acceleration, velocity calcs) and energy/force balance. The student understands core concepts well. Final is on Friday, more sessions later in the week."

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"We reviewed a written piece on the subject of the movie. The general topics we covered included: phonetics and pronunciation, the French style of writing, and working to make sentences less wordy. Specifically, we covered the tricky "eu" sound, liaisons between words, idiomatic expressions, and negations. She continues to improve each session and really absorbs the material that we cover."

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"We have repeated the phrases and words that we learned in the previous three sessions and the student was able to communicate with me without significant issues. He still needs more improvement in pronunciation and takes a while to respond, but he knows how to answer and can have a small talk in German already. During the next sessions we are going to manifest the small talk phrases into him so that he will be prepared to surprise his hopefully future employer. "

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"Today's session started with a review of what we had covered last week (numbers, pronunciation and, basic dialogue in a business setting). Then we moved on to new material. The vocabulary consisted of what the merchandise was made of (silver, gold, types of pens, jewelry, etc.) followed by more questions/responses one would encounter in a business setting. The student seems to be picking up the dialogue concepts pretty quickly. "

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"The student and I went through some math concepts such as evaluating algebraic expressions, operations with negative numbers, and solving algebraic expressions. I then gave her a brief lesson on 30-60-90 and 45-45 right triangles, and we did a few practice problems with those. We then switched to the verbal portion of the exam. I taught her a strategy for approaching synonyms questions, and she began learning English vocab using flashcards. "

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"Again with the split of SAT and schoolwork, the student and I worked on sentence diagramming for English. She had trouble differentiating modifiers from additive words, so we stripped down sentences into the basic subject and verb and worked with modifiers from there. We practiced over several sentence diagrams, and she had gotten a lot better as the session went on. I had her work through her homework and her review for her exam, so we went over quite a bit of sentence diagramming. I told her that this works beautifully in the SAT in terms of realizing when adverbs should be adjectives and vice versa, so as long as she knows what the modifier is and the object of the modification. She's a hard worker, and she has a huge course load!"

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"Today we covered translating graphs and functions, which was very simple for the student. We reviewed most of his homework assignment, then went back and began reviewing exponential functions in preparation for his final."

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"After taking the ISEE practice test, we confirmed that she is likely to do very well on both math sections and the reading comprehension. Her area of weakness continues to be in the verbal section. We spent the majority of today's session on sentence completions, practicing the process of elimination so that she will be able to guess more effectively. "