Overview

City Neighbors High School, founded in 2010, is a public charter high school in the Glenham-Belhar neighborhood of Baltimore, affiliated with the City Neighbors Foundation and part of Baltimore City Public Schools -- a district of 151 schools total per NCES data, operating separately from surrounding Baltimore County.

The most recent enrollment figure we located for this school dates to 2019 -- older than most other records in this directory. We're showing it as-is rather than implying it's current; verify current enrollment directly with the school.

Academics

No independently verified Maryland state assessment data (via the Maryland Report Card) was located for this profile; check the Maryland State Department of Education's site directly for current school-level results.

Neighborhood

Glenham-Belhar is a Baltimore neighborhood; multiple sources specifically identify Baltimore's highest-crime concentrations as being in West Baltimore (around Sandtown-Winchester) and stretches of the east side -- distinct areas from Glenham-Belhar, though we did not find a dedicated crime figure for this specific neighborhood.

Crime & safety

Baltimore's citywide crime data is consistently elevated across sources (violent crime historically among the highest of any major U.S. city, an overall rate 84% above the national average with a D+ grade), but multiple sources agree the burden is heavily concentrated rather than evenly spread: roughly 70% of individually analyzed neighborhoods grade A or B, with high-crime risk concentrated in specific named areas (Oldtown, Madison Park, Perkins Homes, Poppleton, and the West Baltimore/Sandtown-Winchester corridor). There's also genuinely positive, officially sourced trend data: the Baltimore Police Department's own mid-year 2026 report cites homicides down 23% year-over-year, and Maryland's governor's office separately cited 2026 as having the lowest total homicides through May on record for the city.

Baltimore is a useful case for taking both the bad and the good news seriously: citywide crime remains genuinely elevated and among the highest of major U.S. cities by several measures, but recent, officially sourced data (the police department's own report, not a third-party estimate) shows a substantial, ongoing decline. Neither fact cancels out the other.

Our calculated rating

We don't publish a single proprietary score. With no academic data and no neighborhood-specific safety figure for Glenham-Belhar itself, we're not showing a rating for this profile. See our ratings methodology.

Sources

  1. Wikipedia, "City Neighbors High School," cross-checked against NCES ID 240009001690.
  2. City-Data.com, Baltimore crime statistics, 2026.
  3. Baltimore Police Department, 2026 Mid-Year Crime Report, July 2026.
  4. Office of Governor Wes Moore, Baltimore homicide-reduction statement, June 2026.
  5. DoorProfit.com, Baltimore crime statistics, neighborhood map, and grade distribution, citing FBI UCR data, 2026.
  6. BaltimoreCrimes.com, Baltimore crime statistics and neighborhood-concentration analysis, citing Baltimore Police Department incident data and Census data, 2026.
  7. CrimeSafe.app, Baltimore crime rate and safety score, 2026.