Benjamin Stoddert Middle

As a low-enrollment middle school in Temple Hills, Maryland, Benjamin Stoddert Middle teaches 628 students from grades 6 through 8, one of the schools within Prince George's County Public Schools.

Prince George's County Public Schools comprises 199 schools with combined enrollment of 132,693 students; Benjamin Stoddert Middle is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Benjamin Stoddert Middle reports that 66% of the student body identifies as Black. Other groups include 31% Hispanic.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 14.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 95% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Prince George's County (around 79%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Benjamin Stoddert Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 18.2%; this one delivers 20.6%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Prince George's County shows the typical household earns roughly $101,798 per year, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Benjamin Stoddert Middle is one of 203 public schools in Prince George's County (combined enrollment of about 132,693 students).

Imagine Lincoln PCS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Benjamin Stoddert Middle ranks 9th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 28.9%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Benjamin Stoddert Middle has stayed largely flat, going from 614 students in 2018 to 628 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 84% to 66% across the same window.

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