Summary
Crossroads Center is a middle school located in Baltimore, Maryland, serving grades 7-8 with a total enrollment of 21 students. Despite being part of the Baltimore County Public Schools district, which is ranked 17th out of 25 districts in Maryland, Crossroads Center has consistently ranked among the lowest-performing middle schools in the state, ranking 336th out of 337 Maryland middle schools in the 2024-2025 school year.
Crossroads Center faces significant challenges, with extremely low test scores, high dropout rates, and high chronic absenteeism. In the 2024-2025 school year, 0% of Crossroads Center students were proficient or better in MCAP Mathematics, compared to 20.7% in the district and 26.5% statewide. Similarly, only 6.7% of Crossroads Center students were proficient or better in MCAP English Language Arts, compared to 45% in the district and 50.8% statewide. The school has also experienced high dropout rates, ranging from 3.4% in 2020-2021 to 10.1% in 2023-2024, and struggles with high chronic absenteeism, with rates ranging from 28.0% to 85.4% in recent years.
When compared to nearby middle schools in the Baltimore County Public Schools district, such as Parkville Middle, Crossroads Center stands out as an outlier in terms of academic performance and other key metrics. Despite the poor academic outcomes, Crossroads Center has a relatively high per-student spending, ranging from $18,887 to $42,534 in recent years, and a very low student-teacher ratio, ranging from 0.8 to 6.3 in recent years, suggesting that the school may be struggling to effectively allocate resources to support student learning.
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