District Heights Elementary

District Heights Elementary is a K-5 school of close-knit scale in District Heights, Maryland, one of the schools within Prince George's County Public Schools, hosting 365 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Maryland's public schools average about 481 students each, so District Heights Elementary sits 24% smaller than that benchmark.

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

In terms of who attends, District Heights Elementary logs that the largest single group is Black, at 73% of enrollment; the rest breaks down as 24% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 59%.

On the resource side, On paper, District Heights Elementary has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.2:1. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 95% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, District Heights Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 18.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 20.3%.

Across the wider county, Prince George's County reports that the typical household earns roughly $101,798 per year, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. District Heights Elementary is one of 203 public schools in Prince George's County (combined enrollment of about 132,693 students).

Francis Scott Key Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), District Heights Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 22.3%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. District Heights Elementary's enrollment has fell 12% since 2018, when it stood at 417 (now 365). Over the same period, the Black share declined from 85% to 73%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 18.1:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 in 2025.

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