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How has Catherine T. Reed Elementary changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
437
Elementary
DISTRICT 457 · STATE 481
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240051001001
Catherine T. Reed Elementary
9501 Greenbelt Rd, Lanham, MD 20706 · (301) 918-8716 · Prince George's County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL437 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 52% of Maryland public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-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
11.3:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.3:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
90%
395 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 | 17 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 58 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 75 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 66 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 76 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 68 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 77 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (58) is 25% smaller than its 5th grade class (77).
Student demographics
47%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
40.4%
MD avg 50.6% . +14.4pp since 2023
Math
41.8%
MD avg 34.8% . +19.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 42 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 14 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 20 points.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 40.4% | 41.8% |
| 2023-24 | 26.0% | 22.2% |
% 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
32.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
20.7%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+11.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 33% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 21% 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 Catherine T. Reed Elementary
Catherine T. Reed Elementary's state test result (32.6% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catherine T. Reed Elementary this school | 437 | 90.4% | 32.6% |
| Magnolia Elementary Lanham | 442 | 91.9% | 20.4% |
| Francis Scott Key Elementary District Heights | 451 | 92.9% | 18.4% |
| Ardmore Elementary Springdale | 470 | 92.3% | 36.1% |
| Andrew Jackson Academy Forestville | 458 | 93.9% | 20.2% |
| Waldon Woods Elementary Clinton | 523 | 92.0% | 27.4% |
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 Catherine T. Reed Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Prince George's County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 32.6% | #594 of 853 | #53 of 136 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 41.8% | #406 of 853 ▲ 257 | #20 of 136 ▲ 44 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 40.4% | #558 of 853 ▲ 164 | #56 of 136 ▲ 42 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 437 | #532 of 898 | #73 of 145 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.3:1 | #106 of 857 | #19 of 141 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 46.7% | #560 of 857 | #80 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 90.4% | #83 of 885 | #69 of 144 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.9% | #351 of 551 | #74 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
437
-29 (-6%) vs 2020
+4% since 1990-91, when it was 421
Student : Teacher
11.3:1
was 11.7:1
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 | 437 | 38.7 | 11.3:1 | 90% (395) |
| 2023-24 | 435 | 36.5 | 11.9:1 | 79% (342) |
| 2022-23 | 472 | 33 | 14.3:1 | 81% (384) |
| 2020-21 | 466 | 40 | 11.7:1 | 81% (378) |
| 2017-18 | 485 | 36.4 | 13.3:1 | 80% (390) |
| 2015-16 | 512 | 35 | 14.6:1 | 75% (384) |
| 2010-11 | 460 | 31 | 14.8:1 | 63% (290) |
| 2000-01 | 587 | 38 | 15.4:1 | 55% (320) |
| 1990-91 | 421 | 27 | 15.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Catherine T. Reed Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 10% (485 to 437); teachers up 6% (36.4 to 38.7).
About Catherine T. Reed Elementary
Catherine T. Reed Elementary operates as a medium-sized elementary school in Lanham, Maryland. The school enrolls 437 students, from pre-K through 5.
District-wide, Prince George's County Public Schools has 199 schools and 132,693 students.
Roughly 70% of students at Catherine T. Reed Elementary are Black. Other reported shares: 22% Hispanic, 4% Asian, and 3% White. Prince George's County's residents are about 59% Black, 11 points below the school's share. Pick two students at random and there is a 47% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The school's student-to-teacher ratio is about 11.3:1, with 38.7 full-time-equivalent teachers. That is 2.5 students per teacher below the 13.8:1 average for elementary schools in Maryland. Students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch make up 90% of enrollment. That is higher than the 79% average for public schools in Prince George's County.
allk12 grades Catherine T. Reed Elementary a B-. The grade compares the school only with Maryland public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate on state tests with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For Catherine T. Reed Elementary, the prediction is 20.7% and the result is 32.6%.
Prince George's County census figures show that the median household income is $101,798, roughly 37% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. There are 203 public schools in Prince George's County, enrolling about 132,693 students in all.
The closest public school to Catherine T. Reed Elementary is Robert Goddard Montessori, about 0.1 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On proficiency, Catherine T. Reed Elementary is behind the 33.9% nearby average, ranking 5th of 9.
Catherine T. Reed Elementary is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, a location NCES labels Suburb: Large.
Enrollment is down 6% from 2020-21, when Catherine T. Reed Elementary had 466 students, to 2024-25, when it had 437.
Conversations here can range across school safety, transportation, and start times. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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 Lanham
- Duval HighHigh · 2,522 students
- Thomas Johnson MiddleMiddle · 1,180 students
- Legends Public Charter SchoolElementary · 897 students
- James McHenry ElementaryElementary · 610 students
- Gaywood ElementaryElementary · 525 students
- Glenarden Woods ElementaryElementary · 516 students
Nearby schools
- Robert Goddard Montessori0.1 mi · 464
- Duval High0.2 mi · 2,522
- Gaywood Elementary0.7 mi · 525
- Magnolia Elementary1.2 mi · 442
- Glenn Dale Elementary1.4 mi · 493
- Seabrook Elementary1.5 mi · 365
Frequently asked questions
About Catherine T. Reed ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Catherine T. Reed Elementary?
Catherine T. Reed Elementary enrolls approximately 437 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Catherine T. Reed Elementary serve?
Catherine T. Reed Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Catherine T. Reed Elementary?
Approximately 11.3:1 students per teacher at Catherine T. Reed Elementary.
How diverse is Catherine T. Reed Elementary?
Catherine T. Reed Elementary reports a student body of 3% White, 22% Hispanic, 70% Black, 4% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Catherine T. Reed Elementary?
Catherine T. Reed 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.