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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at Bond Mill Elementary this year?
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Enrollment
463
Elementary
DISTRICT 457 · STATE 481
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240051000988
Bond Mill Elementary
16001 Sherwood Ave, Laurel, MD 20707 · (301) 497-3600 · Prince George's County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL463 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 28% of Maryland public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats 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
13.4:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.3:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
52%
243 students
DISTRICT 79% · STATE 54%
Community
5
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 64 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 73 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 72 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 91 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 78 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 85 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (64) is 25% smaller than its 5th grade class (85).
Student demographics
70%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
50.7%
MD avg 50.6% . +3.6pp since 2023
Math
36.5%
MD avg 34.8% . +19.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 51 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 37 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 20 points.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 50.7% | 36.5% |
| 2023-24 | 47.1% | 16.8% |
% 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
37.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.2%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% 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 Bond Mill Elementary
Bond Mill Elementary's state test result (37.8% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bond Mill Elementary this school | 463 | 52.5% | 37.8% |
| Cradlerock Elementary Columbia | 453 | 55.6% | 34.8% |
| Kenilworth Elementary Bowie | 364 | 48.6% | 34.8% |
| Warren Elementary Cockeysville | 381 | 51.4% | 45.2% |
| Talbott Springs Elementary Columbia | 461 | 45.3% | 52.6% |
| S. Christa McAuliffe Elementary Germantown | 467 | 55.0% | 40.1% |
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 Bond Mill Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Prince George's County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 37.8% | #504 of 853 | #31 of 136 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 36.5% | #484 of 853 ▲ 266 | #25 of 136 ▲ 73 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 50.7% | #412 of 853 ▼ 5 | #25 of 136 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 463 | #465 of 898 | #61 of 145 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.4:1 | #350 of 857 | #79 of 141 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.8% | #188 of 857 | #1 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 52.5% | #501 of 885 | #125 of 144 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.4% | #198 of 551 | #52 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
463
-25 (-5%) vs 2020
-32% since 1990-91, when it was 682
Student : Teacher
13.4:1
was 15.7:1
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 | 463 | 34.5 | 13.4:1 | 52% (243) |
| 2023-24 | 468 | 32 | 14.6:1 | 53% (246) |
| 2022-23 | 481 | 31 | 15.5:1 | 50% (240) |
| 2020-21 | 488 | 31 | 15.7:1 | 36% (178) |
| 2017-18 | 554 | 32.9 | 16.9:1 | 33% (181) |
| 2015-16 | 533 | 31 | 17.2:1 | 32% (169) |
| 2010-11 | 464 | 26 | 17.9:1 | 31% (144) |
| 2000-01 | 504 | 28 | 18.0:1 | 12% (60) |
| 1990-91 | 682 | 29 | 23.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Bond Mill Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 16% (554 to 463); teachers up 5% (32.9 to 34.5).
About Bond Mill Elementary
Bond Mill Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school that serves part of Laurel, Maryland. The school offers kindergarten through 5 and enrolls 463 students.
Bond Mill Elementary sits within Prince George's County Public Schools, which has 199 schools and 132,693 students.
Of every 100 students at Bond Mill Elementary, about 43 are Black, the largest group. After that, the student body is 30% Hispanic, 16% White, 6% Asian, and 6% multiracial. Census figures show Prince George's County is about 59% Black. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 70, compared with 70 nationally.
Based on 34.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, Bond Mill Elementary has a ratio of 13.4:1. It is about the same as the 13.8:1 average for elementary schools in Maryland. Income data for the school show 52% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The gap from the 79% average for public schools in Prince George's County is 27 points.
Among Maryland public elementary schools, Bond Mill Elementary outscored 28%, which works out to a C on the allk12 Grade.
After adjusting for student poverty, Bond Mill Elementary lands between the top and bottom 10% of Maryland schools. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 37.8%; the prediction is 43.2%.
Prince George's County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $101,798 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 37% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 7%. Public schools in Prince George's County number 203, with about 132,693 students.
Scotchtown Hills Elementary is the nearest public school to Bond Mill Elementary, about 0.9 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Bond Mill Elementary is 6th of 9 on proficiency.
Federal records code the school's setting as Suburb: Large.
Enrollment was 463 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 488. The student-to-teacher ratio dropped from 15.7:1 in 2020-21 to 13.4:1 in 2024-25.
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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 Laurel
- Laurel HighHigh · 2,129 students
- Chesapeake Math and IT Public CharterCombined · 1,681 students
- Dwight D. Eisenhower MiddleMiddle · 1,047 students
- Monarch Global Academy PCS Laurel CampusElementary · 830 students
- Hammond ElementaryElementary · 763 students
- Gorman Crossing ElementaryElementary · 750 students
Nearby schools
- Scotchtown Hills Elementary0.9 mi · 589
- Chesapeake Math and IT Public Charter1.2 mi · 1,681
- Laurel High1.8 mi · 2,129
- Burtonsville Elementary2.2 mi · 601
- Laurel Elementary2.3 mi · 472
- Hammond Elementary2.8 mi · 763
Frequently asked questions
About Bond Mill ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Bond Mill Elementary?
Bond Mill Elementary enrolls approximately 463 students in grades KG-05.
Is Bond Mill Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Bond Mill Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at Bond Mill Elementary?
Approximately 13.4:1 students per teacher at Bond Mill Elementary.
What is the student diversity at Bond Mill Elementary?
Student demographics at Bond Mill Elementary are roughly 16% White, 30% Hispanic, 43% Black, 6% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees Bond Mill Elementary?
Bond Mill Elementary is overseen by Prince George's County Public Schools in Prince George's County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.