Cherokee Lane Elementary

Cherokee Lane Elementary is one of the large K-5 schools in Adelphi, Maryland, overseen by Prince George's County Public Schools, with 863 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 481 students per school, that is 79% larger than typical.

Cherokee Lane Elementary is one of 199 schools operated by Prince George's County Public Schools, a district that teaches 132,693 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Cherokee Lane Elementary shows that 82% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder consists of 13% Black, 3% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Cherokee Lane Elementary reports 64 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 90% of students at Cherokee Lane Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Prince George's County runs at roughly 79%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Cherokee Lane Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 20.8%, the actual is 34.3%, a residual of +13.5 points.

In the area at large, census data for Prince George's County shows the typical household earns roughly $101,798 per year, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Prince George's County's 203 public schools (combined enrollment of about 132,693 students), Cherokee Lane Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Buck Lodge Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Cherokee Lane Elementary. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Cherokee Lane Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 20.8%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 56%: 554 students in 2018 compared to 863 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 in 2025.

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