Eva Turner Elementary School

Located at 1000 Bannister Cir, in Waldorf, Maryland, Eva Turner Elementary School is a moderately sized elementary school that instructs 494 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within Charles County Public Schools.

Within Charles County Public Schools, which oversees 38 schools and 28,162 students, Eva Turner Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Eva Turner Elementary School shows that 71% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest comes out to 20% Hispanic, 4% White, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 49%.

On the resource side, On paper, Eva Turner Elementary School has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 68% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Charles County runs at roughly 50%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Eva Turner Elementary School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 33.9%; actual is 19.2%, a gap of -14.6 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Charles County shows median household earnings sit near $122,816, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Eva Turner Elementary School is one of 40 public schools in Charles County (combined enrollment of about 28,162 students).

Nearest neighbor: Benjamin Stoddert Middle School, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Eva Turner Elementary School ranks 8th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 29.4%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 17%: 422 students in 2018 compared to 494 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 9% to 20%.

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