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Enrollment
863
Elementary
DISTRICT 457 · STATE 481
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240051001006
Cherokee Lane Elementary
2617 Buck Lodge Rd, Adelphi, MD 20783 · (301) 445-8415 · Prince George's County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL863 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 56% 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.
- ABeats 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
13.6:1
64 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.3:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
90%
779 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 | 37 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 150 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 135 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 147 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 134 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 144 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 116 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (150) is 29% larger than its 5th grade class (116).
Student demographics
31%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
43.0%
MD avg 50.6% . +7.0pp since 2023
Math
29.8%
MD avg 34.8% . +1.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 30 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 43.0% | 29.8% |
| 2023-24 | 36.0% | 28.5% |
% 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
34.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
20.8%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+13.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 34% 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 Cherokee Lane Elementary
Cherokee Lane Elementary's state test result (34.3% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cherokee Lane Elementary this school | 863 | 90.3% | 34.3% |
| Bladensburg Elementary Bladensburg | 713 | 91.4% | 30.1% |
| Mary Harris Mother Jones Elem Adelphi | 734 | 92.8% | 24.1% |
| Beltsville Academy Beltsville | 1,113 | 94.0% | 31.9% |
| Ridgecrest Elementary Hyattsville | 631 | 89.5% | 23.9% |
| Port Towns Elementary Bladensburg | 747 | 92.9% | 13.8% |
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 Cherokee Lane Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Prince George's County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 34.3% | #556 of 853 | #46 of 136 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 29.8% | #590 of 853 ▼ 22 | #52 of 136 ▼ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 43.0% | #520 of 853 ▲ 48 | #43 of 136 ▲ 17 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 863 | #25 of 898 | #5 of 145 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.6:1 | #380 of 857 | #85 of 141 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 31.4% | #712 of 857 | #114 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 90.3% | #87 of 885 | #73 of 144 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +55.8% | #12 of 294 | #1 of 39 |
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
863
+305 (+55%) vs 2020
+59% since 1990-91, when it was 543
Student : Teacher
13.6:1
was 14.3:1
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 | 863 | 63.5 | 13.6:1 | 90% (779) |
| 2023-24 | 816 | 64.3 | 12.7:1 | 87% (710) |
| 2022-23 | 619 | 47.3 | 13.1:1 | 84% (523) |
| 2020-21 | 558 | 39 | 14.3:1 | 85% (474) |
| 2017-18 | 554 | 35.3 | 15.7:1 | 83% (462) |
| 2015-16 | 512 | 32 | 16.0:1 | 77% (392) |
| 2010-11 | 453 | 34 | 13.3:1 | 81% (365) |
| 2000-01 | 695 | 40 | 17.4:1 | 73% (504) |
| 1990-91 | 543 | 27 | 20.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Cherokee Lane Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 56% (554 to 863); teachers up 80% (35.3 to 63.5).
About Cherokee Lane Elementary
Cherokee Lane Elementary operates as a large elementary school in Adelphi, Maryland. It reported 863 students in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25. That compares with an average of about 481 students for elementary schools in Maryland.
Cherokee Lane Elementary is in Prince George's County Public Schools, a district with 132,693 students across 199 schools.
At Cherokee Lane Elementary, 82% of students are Hispanic. Smaller groups are 13% Black and 3% White. For comparison, the population of Prince George's County is roughly 23% Hispanic. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Cherokee Lane Elementary scores 31%.
Cherokee Lane Elementary has a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.6:1, with 63.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average ratio among elementary schools in Maryland is similar, at 13.8:1. The school has 90% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. On average, public schools in Prince George's County report 79%.
Cherokee Lane Elementary holds a B allk12 Grade, placing it above 56% of Maryland public elementary schools.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Cherokee Lane Elementary is 13.5 points above the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 34.3% actual, 20.8% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Maryland.
The county, Prince George's County, is where the school is located. Median household income comes to about $101,798, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 37% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 7%. The county has 203 public schools and about 132,693 students.
Cherokee Lane Elementary is about 0.1 miles from Buck Lodge Middle, its nearest public school. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. On proficiency, Cherokee Lane Elementary is ahead of the 20.8% nearby average, ranking 1st of 7.
Cherokee Lane Elementary has an NCES locale of Suburb: Large.
Enrollment records show 558 in 2020-21 and 863 in 2024-25. Because schools sometimes add or drop grades, the two numbers may not be directly comparable.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about open houses, carpools, and field trips at Cherokee Lane Elementary. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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 Adelphi
- Buck Lodge MiddleMiddle · 1,200 students
- Sonia Sotomayor Middle at AdelphiMiddle · 1,077 students
- Mary Harris Mother Jones ElemElementary · 734 students
- Adelphi ElementaryElementary · 505 students
- Cool Spring ElementaryElementary · 458 students
Nearby schools
- Buck Lodge Middle0.1 mi · 1,200
- Adelphi Elementary0.5 mi · 505
- Mary Harris Mother Jones Elem0.9 mi · 734
- Cool Spring Elementary1.0 mi · 458
- Sonia Sotomayor Middle at Adelphi1.1 mi · 1,077
- Roscoe R Nix Elementary1.7 mi · 437
Frequently asked questions
About Cherokee Lane ElementaryHow many students attend Cherokee Lane Elementary?
Cherokee Lane Elementary enrolls approximately 863 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Cherokee Lane Elementary serve?
Cherokee Lane Elementary serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Cherokee Lane Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Cherokee Lane Elementary is approximately 13.6:1 (64 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Cherokee Lane Elementary?
Student demographics at Cherokee Lane Elementary are roughly 3% White, 82% Hispanic, 13% Black, 1% Asian, 0% Two or more.
What district is Cherokee Lane Elementary in?
Cherokee Lane Elementary is part of Prince George's County Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.