Friendship Aspire Bowie Charter

Friendship Aspire Bowie Charter is a tiny primary school in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, operated by Prince George's County Public Schools. The school caters to 140 students in grades K through 1. By comparison, Maryland's public schools average about 481 students each, so Friendship Aspire Bowie Charter sits 71% leaner than that benchmark.

Prince George's County Public Schools comprises 199 schools with combined enrollment of 132,693 students; Friendship Aspire Bowie Charter is among them.

On demographics, Friendship Aspire Bowie Charter reports that nearly all students (86%) are Black. Other groups include 6% Hispanic, 4% White. The wider county runs roughly 59% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Friendship Aspire Bowie Charter has 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.0:1. The state averages about 13.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 53% of students at Friendship Aspire Bowie Charter qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Prince George's County's rate of about 79%.

Across the wider county, census data for Prince George's County shows median household income runs about $101,798, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Prince George's County's 203 public schools (combined enrollment of about 132,693 students), Friendship Aspire Bowie Charter is one campus in the mix.

Rosaryville Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting. Friendship Aspire Bowie Charter operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

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