(THE COLLEGE FIX) – Forty-one percent of public high school students in Maryland’s largest city have failed to earn even a “D” grade point average.
This translates to over 8,400 kids out of Baltimore City Schools’ 20,500 total population … and almost twice the amount from the previous school year, FOX-45 reports. The statistics were obtained by Project Baltimore, a special FOX-45 investigative team.
The district cited the COVID-19 pandemic as the main culprit for the high number: “Consistent with the experience of many school districts across the country, the COVID-19 pandemic created significant disruptions to student learning […] Starting this summer and beyond, City Schools is providing students with a variety of opportunities to acquire the unfinished learning they lost.”
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