Fort Washington Forest Elem

Located at 1300 Fillmore Rd, in Fort Washington, Maryland, Fort Washington Forest Elem is a tight-knit K-5 school that hosts 323 students (grades pre-K through 5), one of the schools within Prince George's County Public Schools. By comparison, Maryland's public schools average about 481 students each, so Fort Washington Forest Elem sits 33% leaner than that benchmark.

Prince George's County Public Schools runs 199 schools in total, collectively educating 132,693 students. Fort Washington Forest Elem is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Fort Washington Forest Elem logs that the most-represented group is Black (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest is composed of 39% Hispanic, 4% White, 2% Asian, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 59% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully less Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.3:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 60% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Prince George's County (around 79%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Fort Washington Forest Elem tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 38.7% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 34.9%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Prince George's County indicate median household earnings sit near $101,798, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Prince George's County's 203 public schools (combined enrollment of about 132,693 students), Fort Washington Forest Elem is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Colin L Powell Academy, around 1.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Fort Washington Forest Elem. On composite proficiency, Fort Washington Forest Elem comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 46.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Five-year trend. Fort Washington Forest Elem's enrollment has ticked up 6% since 2018, when it stood at 304 (now 323). The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 21% to 39% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 today.

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