Imagine Foundations at Morningside PCS

Imagine Foundations at Morningside PCS operates as a low-enrollment K-5 school in Morningside, Maryland, part of Prince George's County Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 357 students spanning grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 26% leaner than the state mean of about 481.

Imagine Foundations at Morningside PCS is one of 199 schools operated by Prince George's County Public Schools, a district that caters to 132,693 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Imagine Foundations at Morningside PCS shows that 91% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest reads as 3% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Prince George's County as a whole is about 59% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Imagine Foundations at Morningside PCS has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Imagine Foundations at Morningside PCS tighter than the state norm the norm. About 62% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Prince George's County's rate of about 79%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Imagine Foundations at Morningside PCS sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 37.3%; this one delivers 48.5%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Prince George's County indicate median household income runs about $101,798, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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), Imagine Foundations at Morningside PCS is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Benjamin D. Foulois Academy, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Imagine Foundations at Morningside PCS. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Imagine Foundations at Morningside PCS ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 28.1%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site. Imagine Foundations at Morningside PCS operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 31%: 521 students in 2018 compared to 357 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 today.

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