Cool Spring Elementary

Cool Spring Elementary is a reasonably sized elementary school in Adelphi, Maryland, part of Prince George's County Public Schools. The school hosts 458 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Prince George's County Public Schools comprises 199 schools with combined enrollment of 132,693 students; Cool Spring Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Cool Spring Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (95%). By comparison, Prince George's County as a whole is about 23% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 96% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Prince George's County's rate of about 79%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Cool Spring Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 17.5%, the actual is 21.7%, a residual of +4.2 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Prince George's County put the typical household earns roughly $101,798 per year, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Prince George's County's 203 public schools (combined enrollment of about 132,693 students), Cool Spring Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Sonia Sotomayor Middle at Adelphi, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Cool Spring Elementary at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 22.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 46%: 856 students in 2018 compared to 458 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 in 2025.

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