Ernest Everett Just Middle

As a reasonably sized middle-grades school in Mitchellville, Maryland, Ernest Everett Just Middle educates 752 students from grades 6 through 8, one of the schools within Prince George's County Public Schools.

Prince George's County Public Schools runs 199 schools in total, collectively educating 132,693 students. Ernest Everett Just Middle is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Ernest Everett Just Middle reports that nearly all students (85%) are Black. Other groups include 13% Hispanic. By comparison, Prince George's County as a whole is about 59% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Ernest Everett Just Middle shows 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 93% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Prince George's County runs at roughly 79%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Ernest Everett Just Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 19.5%, the actual is 29.2%, a residual of +9.7 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Prince George's County indicate median household earnings sit near $101,798, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Ernest Everett Just Middle is one of 203 public schools in Prince George's County (combined enrollment of about 132,693 students).

Nearest neighbor: Lake Arbor Elementary, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Ernest Everett Just Middle. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Ernest Everett Just Middle at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 40.2%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 3%: 733 students in 2018 compared to 752 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 4% to 13%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 in 2025.

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