Cooper Lane Elementary

Set in Landover Hills, Maryland, Cooper Lane Elementary is a compact K-5 school, part of Prince George's County Public Schools. It hosts 407 students across grades pre-K through 5.

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

In terms of who attends, Cooper Lane Elementary reports that 69% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder breaks down as 25% Black, 3% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Cooper Lane Elementary has 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Cooper Lane Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 93% of students at Cooper Lane Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Prince George's County's rate of about 79%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Cooper Lane Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 19.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 22.7%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Prince George's County) logs that median household earnings sit near $101,798, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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), Cooper Lane Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Gladys Noon Spellman Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Cooper Lane Elementary comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 25.7%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Cooper Lane Elementary has declined 25%, going from 540 students in 2018 to 407 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment shrank from 37% to 25% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 in 2025.

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