Enrollment
291
Elementary
DISTRICT 457 · STATE 481
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240051001021
Doswell E. Brooks Elementary
1301 Brooke Rd, Capital Heights, MD 20743 · (301) 817-0480 · Prince George's County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL291 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 44% of Maryland public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats 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
10.1:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.3:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
91%
264 students
DISTRICT 79% · STATE 54%
Community
0
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 | 38 | 13% |
| Kindergarten | 40 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 33 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 49 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 42 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 53 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 36 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (40) is 11% larger than its 5th grade class (36).
Student demographics
51%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
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MCAP 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 3-4)English Language Arts
34.9%
MD avg 50.6% . -5.1pp since 2023
Math
16.9%
MD avg 34.8% . -10.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 35 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 17 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Maryland schools, those numbers are about 51 and 35. Reading and writing scores are down about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 11 points.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 34.9% | 16.9% |
| 2023-24 | 40.0% | 27.5% |
% 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
29.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
20.5%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 30% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 21% 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 Doswell E. Brooks Elementary
Doswell E. Brooks Elementary's state test result (29.8% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Doswell E. Brooks Elementary this school | 291 | 90.7% | 29.8% |
| Longfields Elementary Forestville | 256 | 89.8% | 53.6% |
| Princeton Elementary Suitland | 269 | 94.1% | 25.1% |
| Seat Pleasant Elementary Capital Heights | 284 | 95.8% | 21.1% |
| Bradbury Heights Elementary Capital Heights | 354 | 94.1% | 14.9% |
| Clinton Grove Elementary Clinton | 295 | 87.8% | 23.2% |
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 Doswell E. Brooks Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Prince George's County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 29.8% | #644 of 853 | #69 of 136 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 16.9% | #781 of 853 ▼ 202 | #108 of 136 ▼ 62 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 34.9% | #639 of 853 ▼ 131 | #79 of 136 ▼ 34 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 291 | #762 of 898 | #122 of 145 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.1:1 | #22 of 857 | #3 of 141 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.7% | #506 of 857 | #63 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 90.7% | #79 of 885 | #66 of 144 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +39.2% | #21 of 294 | #3 of 39 |
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
291
+66 (+29%) vs 2020
-56% since 1990-91, when it was 659
Student : Teacher
10.1:1
was 10.7:1
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 | 291 | 28.8 | 10.1:1 | 91% (264) |
| 2023-24 | 205 | 23.8 | 8.6:1 | 75% (154) |
| 2022-23 | 225 | 21.3 | 10.6:1 | 74% (166) |
| 2020-21 | 225 | 21 | 10.7:1 | 72% (163) |
| 2017-18 | 209 | 16.7 | 12.5:1 | 77% (161) |
| 2015-16 | 236 | 17 | 13.9:1 | 81% (191) |
| 2010-11 | 283 | 18 | 15.7:1 | 70% (199) |
| 2000-01 | 570 | 33 | 17.3:1 | 41% (236) |
| 1990-91 | 659 | 38 | 17.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Doswell E. Brooks Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 39% (209 to 291); teachers up 72% (16.7 to 28.8).
About Doswell E. Brooks Elementary
Doswell E. Brooks Elementary is a low-enrollment elementary school serving families in Capital Heights, Maryland. The school has 291 students in 2024-25 across pre-K through 5. By comparison, elementary schools in Maryland enroll about 481 students on average.
The 199 schools in Prince George's County Public Schools enroll 132,693 students altogether, Doswell E. Brooks Elementary among them.
More than half of the students at Doswell E. Brooks Elementary are Black (64%). The next largest groups are 30% Hispanic and 3% White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Doswell E. Brooks Elementary scores 51%.
On staff are 28.8 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 10.1:1. Elementary schools in Maryland have an average ratio of 13.8:1. About 91% of students at Doswell E. Brooks Elementary are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That rate is above the 79% average among public schools in Prince George's County.
Doswell E. Brooks Elementary earns a C+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 44% of Maryland public elementary schools.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Doswell E. Brooks Elementary is +9.3 points: 29.8% actual, 20.5% predicted.
The county, Prince George's County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $101,798 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 37%, and about 7% of people live in poverty. Counting Doswell E. Brooks Elementary, Prince George's County has 203 public schools.
Of the public schools around it, Doswell E. Brooks Elementary is closest to William W. Hall Academy, about 0.4 miles away. Doswell E. Brooks Elementary has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Doswell E. Brooks Elementary's average proficiency of 29.8% compares with 27.0% for its nearest scored neighbors.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Suburb: Large.
The school grew from 225 students in 2020-21 to 291 in 2024-25.
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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 Capital Heights
- Robert R. Gray ElementaryElementary · 375 students
- Bradbury Heights ElementaryElementary · 354 students
- Seat Pleasant ElementaryElementary · 284 students
Nearby schools
- William W. Hall Academy0.4 mi · 444
- Concord Elementary0.6 mi · 204
- Capitol Heights Elementary0.7 mi · 317
- Francis Scott Key Elementary0.8 mi · 451
- Bradbury Heights Elementary1.0 mi · 354
- District Heights Elementary1.1 mi · 365
Frequently asked questions
About Doswell E. Brooks ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Doswell E. Brooks Elementary?
Doswell E. Brooks Elementary enrolls approximately 291 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Doswell E. Brooks Elementary serve?
Doswell E. Brooks Elementary serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Doswell E. Brooks Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Doswell E. Brooks Elementary is approximately 10.1:1 (29 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Doswell E. Brooks Elementary?
At Doswell E. Brooks Elementary, the student body is approximately 3% White, 30% Hispanic, 64% Black, 1% Asian, 0% Two or more.
What district is Doswell E. Brooks Elementary in?
Doswell E. Brooks 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.