Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer Elementary School

Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer Elementary School is a moderately sized elementary school in Waldorf, Maryland, one of the schools within Charles County Public Schools. The school serves 661 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 37% bigger than the state mean of about 481.

Within Charles County Public Schools, which oversees 38 schools and 28,162 students, Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer Elementary School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer Elementary School reports that Black students make up the majority at 65%; the rest breaks down as 21% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 4% Asian, 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 49% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer Elementary School has 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. An estimated 60% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Charles County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.8%, the actual is 26.1%, a residual of -12.6 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Charles County indicate median household earnings sit near $122,816, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Charles County's 40 public schools (combined enrollment of about 28,162 students), Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: C. Paul Barnhart Elementary School, around 0.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer Elementary School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 32.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Five-year trend. Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer Elementary School's enrollment has rose 8% since 2018, when it stood at 613 (now 661). Hispanic enrollment moved from 11% to 21% across the same window.

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