Beacon Heights Elementary

Beacon Heights Elementary is a compact K-5 school in Riverdale, Maryland, overseen by Prince George's County Public Schools. The school instructs 342 students in grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 481 students per school, that is 29% below typical.

Prince George's County Public Schools runs 199 schools in total, collectively educating 132,693 students. Beacon Heights Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Beacon Heights Elementary shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 78% of enrollment; the rest looks like 13% Black, 5% White, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 23% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Beacon Heights Elementary reports 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. About 92% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Prince George's County (around 79%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Beacon Heights Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 19.9%, the actual is 26.2%, a residual of +6.3 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Prince George's County indicate the typical household earns roughly $101,798 per year, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Beacon Heights Elementary is one of 203 public schools in Prince George's County (combined enrollment of about 132,693 students).

Nearest neighbor: Ellen Ochoa Middle, around 0.3 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Beacon Heights Elementary at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 23.1%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 31%: 493 students in 2018 compared to 342 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share ticked down from 21% to 13%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 today.

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