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What advice would you give to incoming students at Arrowhead Elementary?
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Enrollment
378
Elementary
DISTRICT 457 · STATE 481
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240051000971
Arrowhead Elementary
2300 Sansbury Rd, Upper Marlboro, MD 20772 · (301) 499-7071 · Prince George's County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL378 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 13% of Maryland public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Maryland public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
12.9:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.3:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
87%
330 students
DISTRICT 79% · STATE 54%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 35 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 56 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 50 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 54 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 44 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 78 | 21% |
| Grade 5 | 61 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (56) is 8% smaller than its 5th grade class (61).
Student demographics
54%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 58% · STATE 73% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
MCAP 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 3-4)English Language Arts
30.5%
MD avg 50.6% . +6.0pp since 2023
Math
13.5%
MD avg 34.8% . -3.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 31 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 14 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Maryland schools, those numbers are about 51 and 35. Reading and writing scores are up about 6 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 30.5% | 13.5% |
| 2023-24 | 24.5% | 16.5% |
% Proficient (Levels 3-4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: MCAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
21.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
22.6%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 21% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 23% typical for Maryland schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Maryland's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Arrowhead Elementary
Arrowhead Elementary's state test result (21.3% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arrowhead Elementary this school | 378 | 87.3% | 21.3% |
| Samuel Chase Elementary Temple Hills | 355 | 89.3% | 22.9% |
| William Beanes Elementary Suitland | 424 | 90.3% | 16.8% |
| Barnaby Manor Elementary Oxon Hill | 438 | 91.1% | 30.9% |
| Hillcrest Heights Elementary Temple Hills | 388 | 93.6% | 23.6% |
| Carmody Hills Elementary Capitol Heights | 389 | 93.3% | 18.3% |
Matched among Maryland elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Arrowhead Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Prince George's County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 21.3% | #773 of 853 | #113 of 136 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 13.5% | #818 of 853 ▼ 57 | #120 of 136 ▼ 20 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 30.5% | #714 of 853 ▲ 24 | #96 of 136 ▲ 11 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 378 | #635 of 898 | #88 of 145 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.9:1 | #275 of 857 | #55 of 141 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 54.3% | #461 of 857 | #46 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 87.3% | #121 of 885 | #89 of 144 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.4% | #402 of 551 | #83 of 99 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
378
+2 (+1%) vs 2020
-8% since 1990-91, when it was 412
Student : Teacher
12.9:1
was 12.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 378 | 29.4 | 12.9:1 | 87% (330) |
| 2023-24 | 406 | 27.9 | 14.6:1 | 76% (310) |
| 2022-23 | 406 | 27.9 | 14.6:1 | 76% (307) |
| 2020-21 | 376 | 30 | 12.5:1 | 72% (270) |
| 2017-18 | 408 | 33.4 | 12.2:1 | 79% (321) |
| 2015-16 | 317 | 31 | 10.2:1 | 73% (231) |
| 2010-11 | 436 | 38 | 11.5:1 | 59% (256) |
| 2000-01 | 594 | 36 | 16.5:1 | 51% (304) |
| 1990-91 | 412 | 27 | 15.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Arrowhead Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 7% (408 to 378); teachers down 12% (33.4 to 29.4).
About Arrowhead Elementary
Families in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, are served by Arrowhead Elementary, a small elementary school. The school covers pre-K through 5 and reported 378 students in 2024-25. The school is 21% below the average for elementary schools in Maryland.
Prince George's County Public Schools serves 132,693 students across 199 schools.
At Arrowhead Elementary, 56% of students are Black. It is also 38% Hispanic and 3% White. Census estimates put Prince George's County at about 59% Black, close to the school's figure. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Arrowhead Elementary scores 54%.
Arrowhead Elementary lists 29.4 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 12.9 students per teacher. Across elementary schools in Maryland, the average ratio is 13.8:1. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 87% of the student body.
On the allk12 Grade, Arrowhead Elementary lands at D, ahead of 13% of Maryland public elementary schools.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate across its state test results with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For Arrowhead Elementary, the prediction is 22.6% and the result is 21.3%.
In Prince George's County, where the school is located, median household income comes to about $101,798, about 37% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 7%. The county has 203 public schools and about 132,693 students.
Measured in a straight line, H Winship Wheatley E C C is about 1.3 miles from Arrowhead Elementary. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Its average proficiency rate of 21.3% is below the 42.0% average for nearby schools.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Rural: Fringe.
Compared with 2020-21, when it had 376 students, enrollment in 2024-25 was about the same at 378.
The discussion board for Arrowhead Elementary is open to topics like pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
Prince George's County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
959,754
Census ACS
Median income
$101,798
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
37%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
203
132,693 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Prince George's County Public Schools
- High Point HighHigh · 3,012 students
- Charles Herbert Flowers HighHigh · 2,712 students
- Parkdale HighHigh · 2,588 students
- Bowie HighHigh · 2,580 students
- Eleanor Roosevelt HighHigh · 2,544 students
- Duval HighHigh · 2,522 students
Other schools in Upper Marlboro
- Dr. Henry A. Wise Jr. HighHigh · 2,291 students
- Chesapeake Math and IT South Public CharterCombined · 1,503 students
- Frederick Douglass HighHigh · 1,183 students
- Largo HighHigh · 1,159 students
- Kettering MiddleMiddle · 874 students
- James Madison MiddleMiddle · 800 students
Other Arrowhead Elementary schools
10 other US public schools in 11 states are named Arrowhead Elementary. Arrowhead Elementary is the 8th largest of the 11.
- Arrowhead Elementary SchoolLewis Center, OH · 648 students
- ARROWHEAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLEAST SETAUKET, NY · 562 students
- Arrowhead Elementary SchoolGLENDALE, AZ · 515 students
- Arrowhead ElementaryVirginia Beach, VA · 500 students
- Arrowhead Elementary SchoolAURORA, CO · 499 students
Nearby schools
- H Winship Wheatley E C C1.3 mi · 345
- North Forestville Elementary1.7 mi · 271
- Academy of Health Sciences at PGCC2.2 mi · 462
- Longfields Elementary2.2 mi · 256
- Phyllis E. Williams Elementary2.2 mi · 326
- International High school @ Largo2.4 mi · 354
Frequently asked questions
About Arrowhead ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Arrowhead Elementary?
Arrowhead Elementary enrolls approximately 378 students in grades PK-05.
Is Arrowhead Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Arrowhead Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Arrowhead Elementary have?
Arrowhead Elementary employs 29 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.9:1.
What is the student diversity at Arrowhead Elementary?
Student demographics at Arrowhead Elementary are roughly 3% White, 38% Hispanic, 56% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is Arrowhead Elementary in?
Arrowhead Elementary is part of Prince George's County Public Schools.
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