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How Mergenthaler Vocational-Technical High compares
44% vs. 41% district avg
4 points above Baltimore City Public Schools
44% vs. 49% Maryland avg
5 points below state average
1,677
Enrollment
16.1:1
Student:Teacher
44%
Proficiency Rate
70%
Graduation Rate
74%
Free/Reduced Lunch

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About This School

Mergenthaler Vocational-Technical High is a high school located in Baltimore, Maryland. The school serves 1,677 students in grades 9-12. The student-to-teacher ratio is 16.1:1.

According to EDFacts assessment data, 44% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading. The school reports a 70% graduation rate.

74% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, indicating the school serves a predominantly low-income community.

Mergenthaler Vocational-Technical High is part of the Baltimore City Public Schools in Maryland. The school receives Title I federal funding.

How This School Compares

Mergenthaler Vocational-Technical High has 1,677 students enrolled, making it larger than the average school in Baltimore City Public Schools (493 students). Its 44% proficiency rate is 4 percentage points above the district average of 41%. Compared to the Maryland state average of 49%, the school performs 5 points lower.

Frequently Asked Questions

Mergenthaler Vocational-Technical High has 1,677 students enrolled in grades 9-12. The student-to-teacher ratio is 16.1:1.

According to EDFacts data, 44% of students at Mergenthaler Vocational-Technical High meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.

Mergenthaler Vocational-Technical High has a 70% graduation rate, measuring the percentage of students who graduate within four years.

Mergenthaler Vocational-Technical High is part of the Baltimore City Public Schools in Baltimore, Maryland. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.

All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.

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School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.

The this entity record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.

Every number on this page links back to NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.

For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.