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Enrollment
494
Elementary
DISTRICT 457 · STATE 481
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240051001208
Dodge Park Elementary
3401 Hubbard Rd, Landover, MD 20785 · (301) 883-4220 · Prince George's County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL494 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 12% 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.
- CBeats 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
11.8:1
42 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.3:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
94%
462 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 | 40 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 74 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 87 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 71 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 88 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 67 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 67 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (74) is 10% larger than its 5th grade class (67).
Student demographics
67%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
28.8%
MD avg 50.6% . +13.6pp since 2023
Math
18.3%
MD avg 34.8% . +7.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 29 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 18 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 14 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 28.8% | 18.3% |
| 2023-24 | 15.2% | 11.2% |
% 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
18.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
18.9%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 18% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 19% 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 Dodge Park Elementary
Dodge Park Elementary's state test result (18.4% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dodge Park Elementary this school | 494 | 93.5% | 18.4% |
| William Paca Elementary Landover | 563 | 95.4% | 36.3% |
| Glenn Dale Elementary Glenn Dale | 493 | 91.9% | 26.1% |
| Gladys Noon Spellman Elementary Cheverly | 518 | 91.5% | 33.9% |
| Greenbelt Elementary Greenbelt | 531 | 88.3% | 37.8% |
| Magnolia Elementary Lanham | 442 | 91.9% | 20.4% |
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 Dodge Park Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Prince George's County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 18.4% | #806 of 853 | #122 of 136 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 18.3% | #770 of 853 ▲ 49 | #105 of 136 ▲ 16 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 28.8% | #735 of 853 ▲ 89 | #102 of 136 ▲ 31 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 494 | #393 of 898 | #49 of 145 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.8:1 | #154 of 857 | #31 of 141 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 66.6% | #273 of 857 | #7 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 93.5% | #31 of 885 | #23 of 144 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -20.1% | #151 of 551 | #41 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
494
-57 (-10%) vs 2020
-4% since 2010-11, when it was 515
Student : Teacher
11.8:1
was 14.5:1
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 | 494 | 41.9 | 11.8:1 | 94% (462) |
| 2023-24 | 554 | 40.4 | 13.7:1 | 88% (488) |
| 2022-23 | 522 | 40.9 | 12.8:1 | 92% (480) |
| 2020-21 | 551 | 38 | 14.5:1 | 87% (480) |
| 2017-18 | 618 | 46.3 | 13.3:1 | 89% (551) |
| 2015-16 | 563 | 39 | 14.4:1 | 88% (493) |
| 2010-11 | 515 | 35 | 14.7:1 | 84% (431) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Dodge Park Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 20% (618 to 494); teachers down 10% (46.3 to 41.9).
About Dodge Park Elementary
In Landover, Maryland, part of Prince George's County, Dodge Park Elementary is an elementary school. The grade span is pre-K through 5, and enrollment is 494 students.
Dodge Park Elementary is among 199 schools run by Prince George's County Public Schools, which serves 132,693 students.
At Dodge Park Elementary, the largest share of students is Black, at 47%. The school is also 30% Hispanic, 15% Asian, and 7% White. That is lower than the 59% Black share among all Prince George's County residents. The school's diversity index is 67%, meaning two students picked at random have a 67% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
With 41.9 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, the ratio at Dodge Park Elementary was 11.8:1. This ratio sits 2.0 below the 13.8:1 average for elementary schools in Maryland. A measure often used for student poverty, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, stands at 94%. The average for public schools in Prince George's County is 79%.
The allk12 Grade for Dodge Park Elementary is D. Compared with Maryland public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 12% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
After adjusting for student poverty, Dodge Park Elementary lands between the top and bottom 10% of Maryland schools. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 18.4%; the prediction is 18.9%.
In the county around the school, Prince George's County, the median household income is $101,798, roughly 37% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. There are 203 public schools in Prince George's County, enrolling about 132,693 students in all.
Judge Sylvania W. Woods Sr. Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles away. Within five miles of Dodge Park Elementary, there are at least 8 other public schools. On proficiency, Dodge Park Elementary is behind the 34.8% nearby average, ranking 6th of 8.
In the federal locale system, Dodge Park Elementary is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal data show a 10% enrollment decrease, from 551 in 2020-21 to 494 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 14.5:1 to 11.8:1.
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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 Landover
- Fairmont Heights HighHigh · 1,090 students
- Kenmoor MiddleMiddle · 1,021 students
- Thomas G. PullenElementary · 740 students
- Templeton ElementaryElementary · 646 students
- G. James Gholson MiddleMiddle · 603 students
- William Paca ElementaryElementary · 563 students
Nearby schools
- Judge Sylvania W. Woods Sr. Elementary0.2 mi · 540
- Glenarden Woods Elementary0.5 mi · 516
- Kenmoor Early Childhood Center0.6 mi · 240
- Templeton Elementary0.7 mi · 646
- Kenmoor Middle0.7 mi · 1,021
- Robert Frost Elementary0.9 mi · 257
Frequently asked questions
About Dodge Park ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Dodge Park Elementary?
Dodge Park Elementary enrolls approximately 494 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Dodge Park Elementary serve?
Dodge Park Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Dodge Park Elementary?
Approximately 11.8:1 students per teacher at Dodge Park Elementary.
What is the student diversity at Dodge Park Elementary?
Student demographics at Dodge Park Elementary are roughly 7% White, 30% Hispanic, 47% Black, 15% Asian, 0% Two or more.
What district is Dodge Park Elementary in?
Dodge Park Elementary is part of Prince George's County Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.