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Enrollment
767
Elementary
DISTRICT 457 · STATE 481
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240051000995
Calverton Elementary
3400 Beltsville Rd, Beltsville, MD 20705 · (301) 572-0640 · Prince George's County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL767 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 36% 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.
- B+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
13.0:1
59 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.3:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
95%
725 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 20 | 3% |
| Kindergarten | 122 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 117 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 126 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 127 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 113 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 142 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (122) is 14% smaller than its 5th grade class (142).
Student demographics
50%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
36.5%
MD avg 50.6% . +11.5pp since 2023
Math
23.4%
MD avg 34.8% . +4.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 37 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 23 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 12 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 36.5% | 23.4% |
| 2023-24 | 25.0% | 18.6% |
% 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
25.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
18.3%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 26% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 18% 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 Calverton Elementary
Calverton Elementary's state test result (25.9% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Calverton Elementary this school | 767 | 94.5% | 25.9% |
| Port Towns Elementary Bladensburg | 747 | 92.9% | 13.8% |
| Edward M. Felegy ES Hyattsville | 641 | 93.6% | 25.9% |
| Bladensburg Elementary Bladensburg | 713 | 91.4% | 30.1% |
| Glenridge Elementary Landover Hills | 723 | 91.6% | 22.9% |
| James McHenry Elementary Lanham | 610 | 91.6% | 20.1% |
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 Calverton Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Prince George's County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 25.9% | #704 of 853 | #85 of 136 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 23.4% | #697 of 853 ▲ 32 | #79 of 136 ▲ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 36.5% | #614 of 853 ▲ 116 | #71 of 136 ▲ 30 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 767 | #51 of 898 | #7 of 145 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.0:1 | #294 of 857 | #63 of 141 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 49.8% | #518 of 857 | #69 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 94.5% | #14 of 885 | #9 of 144 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.8% | #328 of 551 | #71 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
767
-44 (-5%) vs 2020
+32% since 1990-91, when it was 582
Student : Teacher
13.0:1
was 15.6:1
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 | 767 | 59.1 | 13.0:1 | 95% (725) |
| 2023-24 | 799 | 58.6 | 13.6:1 | 86% (691) |
| 2022-23 | 836 | 55.1 | 15.2:1 | 88% (739) |
| 2020-21 | 811 | 52 | 15.6:1 | 83% (670) |
| 2017-18 | 860 | 56 | 15.4:1 | 82% (709) |
| 2015-16 | 874 | 55 | 15.9:1 | 85% (743) |
| 2010-11 | 719 | 44 | 16.3:1 | 74% (535) |
| 2000-01 | 729 | 36 | 20.3:1 | 52% (378) |
| 1990-91 | 582 | 27 | 21.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Calverton Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 11% (860 to 767); teachers up 6% (56 to 59.1).
About Calverton Elementary
Calverton Elementary is one of the public schools in Beltsville, Maryland. It is a high-enrollment elementary school. It enrolls 767 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are pre-K through 5. The school is 59% above the average for elementary schools in Maryland.
Prince George's County Public Schools has 132,693 students in 199 schools, and Calverton Elementary is one of those schools.
The share of Hispanic students at Calverton Elementary is 66%, a majority. Other students are 24% Black, 4% Asian, and 3% White. That is higher than the 23% Hispanic share among all Prince George's County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 50%.
Calverton Elementary has a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.0:1, with 59.1 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Maryland is 13.8:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 95% at Calverton Elementary. Public schools in Prince George's County average 79%.
Calverton Elementary earns a C+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 36% of Maryland public elementary schools.
On BeatsExpectations, Calverton Elementary is 7.6 points above its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Maryland schools.
American Community Survey estimates for Prince George's County show that the median household earns about $101,798 a year, about 37% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. Prince George's County has 203 public schools with about 132,693 students, including Calverton Elementary.
Calverton Elementary's closest public school neighbor is Galway Elementary, about 0.8 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On proficiency, Calverton Elementary is behind the 31.2% nearby average, ranking 6th of 7.
Calverton Elementary falls in the Suburb: Large locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's student count fell 5% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio dropped to 13.0:1, from 15.6:1.
The discussion board for Calverton 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 Beltsville
- High Point HighHigh · 3,012 students
- Beltsville AcademyElementary · 1,113 students
- Vansville ElementaryElementary · 677 students
- Martin Luther King Jr. MiddleMiddle · 605 students
- Frances R Fuchs E C CElementary · 364 students
- James E. DuckworthCombined · 99 students
Nearby schools
- Galway Elementary0.8 mi · 695
- James E. Duckworth0.9 mi · 99
- High Point High1.0 mi · 3,012
- Martin Luther King Jr. Middle1.3 mi · 605
- Beltsville Academy1.5 mi · 1,113
- Frances R Fuchs E C C1.5 mi · 364
Frequently asked questions
About Calverton ElementaryHow large is Calverton Elementary?
Calverton Elementary enrolls approximately 767 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Calverton Elementary serve?
Calverton Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Calverton Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Calverton Elementary is approximately 13.0:1 (59 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Calverton Elementary?
Calverton Elementary reports a student body of 3% White, 66% Hispanic, 24% Black, 4% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Calverton Elementary?
Calverton 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.