Ellen Ochoa Middle

Students in Hyattsville, Maryland, attend Ellen Ochoa Middle, a mid-sized middle-grades school. Enrollment stands at 1,086 students, covering grades 6 through 8. The school is 42% bigger than the average for middle schools in Maryland.

Prince George's County Public Schools has 132,693 students in 199 schools, and Ellen Ochoa Middle is one of those schools.

More than half of the students at Ellen Ochoa Middle are Hispanic (71%). Next come 23% Black and 4% Asian. That compares with about 23% Hispanic among all Prince George's County residents. The diversity index for Ellen Ochoa Middle is 44%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.

There are 54 full-time-equivalent teachers at Ellen Ochoa Middle, giving a ratio of 20.1:1. The school's 20.1:1 compares with an average of 14.3:1 for middle schools in Maryland. By family income, 97% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Prince George's County is 79%.

In the wider Prince George's County area, the median household earns about $101,798 a year, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of people live in poverty. Prince George's County's 203 public schools enroll about 132,693 students and include Ellen Ochoa Middle.

Ellen Ochoa Middle's closest public school neighbor is Woodridge Elementary, about 0.3 miles away. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools.

The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Large, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

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