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What's one thing Cool Spring Elementary gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
458
Elementary
DISTRICT 457 · STATE 481
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240051000510
Cool Spring Elementary
8910 Riggs Rd, Adelphi, MD 20783 · (301) 431-6200 · Prince George's County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL458 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 24% of Maryland public elementary schools
- DTest 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
11.7:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.3:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
96%
439 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 | 28 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 61 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 73 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 65 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 78 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 73 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 80 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (61) is 24% smaller than its 5th grade class (80).
Student demographics
9%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
24.4%
MD avg 50.6% . +1.7pp since 2023
Math
28.6%
MD avg 34.8% . +17.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 24 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 29 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 18 points.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 24.4% | 28.6% |
| 2023-24 | 22.7% | 11.1% |
% 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
21.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
17.5%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 22% 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 Cool Spring Elementary
Cool Spring Elementary's state test result (21.7% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cool Spring Elementary this school | 458 | 95.9% | 21.7% |
| Rogers Heights Elementary Bladensburg | 450 | 94.9% | 24.0% |
| Tyler Heights Elementary Annapolis | 416 | 96.9% | 24.8% |
| Carole Highlands Elementary Takoma Park | 544 | 92.5% | 14.2% |
| Lewisdale Elementary Hyattsville | 533 | 91.4% | 26.4% |
| Rosa L. Parks Elementary Hyattsville | 607 | 89.6% | 15.6% |
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 Cool Spring Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Prince George's County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 21.7% | #768 of 853 | #112 of 136 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 28.6% | #611 of 853 ▲ 211 | #56 of 136 ▲ 66 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 24.4% | #781 of 853 ▼ 24 | #117 of 136 ▼ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 458 | #484 of 898 | #65 of 145 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.7:1 | #148 of 857 | #29 of 141 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 9.3% | #841 of 857 | #140 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 95.9% | #3 of 885 | #2 of 144 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -46.5% | #8 of 551 | #1 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
458
-376 (-45%) vs 2020
-43% since 2000-01, when it was 808
Student : Teacher
11.7:1
was 11.6:1
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 | 458 | 39 | 11.7:1 | 96% (439) |
| 2023-24 | 500 | 45 | 11.1:1 | 89% (446) |
| 2022-23 | 797 | 68.4 | 11.7:1 | 91% (729) |
| 2020-21 | 834 | 72 | 11.6:1 | 92% (770) |
| 2017-18 | 856 | 63.8 | 13.4:1 | 96% (820) |
| 2015-16 | 830 | 59 | 14.1:1 | 91% (754) |
| 2010-11 | 596 | 37 | 16.1:1 | 90% (535) |
| 2000-01 | 808 | 49 | 16.5:1 | 71% (570) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Cool Spring Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 46% (856 to 458); teachers down 39% (63.8 to 39).
About Cool Spring Elementary
As a mid-sized elementary school, Cool Spring Elementary serves students in Adelphi, Maryland. Total enrollment is 458 students, and the grades served are pre-K through 5.
Cool Spring Elementary reports to Prince George's County Public Schools, which has 199 schools and 132,693 students.
A large majority of enrollment at Cool Spring Elementary is Hispanic, at 95%. Among all residents of Prince George's County, the Hispanic share is about 23%. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 9%.
Based on 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, Cool Spring Elementary has a ratio of 11.7:1. Compared with the 13.8:1 average for elementary schools in Maryland, this school's ratio is lower. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 96%. Among public schools in Prince George's County, the average eligibility rate is 79%.
Cool Spring Elementary holds a C- allk12 Grade, placing it above 24% of Maryland public elementary schools.
Cool Spring Elementary's actual average proficiency rate across its state test results (21.7%) and its predicted rate (17.5%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of Maryland schools.
Prince George's County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $101,798 a year, roughly 37% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Prince George's County number 203, with about 132,693 students.
Cool Spring Elementary is about 0.1 miles from Sonia Sotomayor Middle at Adelphi, its nearest public school. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Its average proficiency rate of 21.7% is below the 22.9% average for nearby schools.
Its location is classified as Suburb: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics.
The school's enrollment figures are 834 for 2020-21 and 458 for 2024-25. Differences this large can reflect a change in grade levels, a boundary change, or a merger.
People can post here about special education services, counseling, and support programs and other school topics. 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
- Cherokee Lane ElementaryElementary · 863 students
- Mary Harris Mother Jones ElemElementary · 734 students
- Adelphi ElementaryElementary · 505 students
Other Cool Spring Elementary schools
4 other US public schools in 3 states are named Cool Spring Elementary. Cool Spring Elementary is the 4th largest of the 5.
- Cool Spring ElementaryMechanicsville, VA · 852 students
- Cool Spring ElementaryLeesburg, VA · 591 students
- Cool Spring ElementaryPetersburg, VA · 540 students
- Cool Spring ElementaryCleveland, NC · 447 students
Nearby schools
- Sonia Sotomayor Middle at Adelphi0.1 mi · 1,077
- Mary Harris Mother Jones Elem0.4 mi · 734
- Adelphi Elementary0.6 mi · 505
- Langley Park-McCormick Elementary0.7 mi · 697
- Buck Lodge Middle0.9 mi · 1,200
- Cherokee Lane Elementary1.0 mi · 863
Frequently asked questions
About Cool Spring ElementaryHow large is Cool Spring Elementary?
Cool Spring Elementary enrolls approximately 458 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Cool Spring Elementary serve?
Cool Spring Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Cool Spring Elementary?
Approximately 11.7:1 students per teacher at Cool Spring Elementary.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Cool Spring Elementary?
At Cool Spring Elementary, the student body is approximately 2% White, 95% Hispanic, 2% Black.
Is Cool Spring Elementary public or private?
Cool Spring Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Prince George's County Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.