Lake Arbor Elementary

Lake Arbor Elementary, an average-sized elementary school in Mitchellville, Maryland, one of the schools within Prince George's County Public Schools, caters to 593 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Maryland's public schools average about 481 students each, so Lake Arbor Elementary sits 23% larger than that benchmark.

Prince George's County Public Schools comprises 199 schools with combined enrollment of 132,693 students; Lake Arbor Elementary is among them.

Demographically, Lake Arbor Elementary records that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (90%). Other groups include 5% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 59%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.2:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 91% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Prince George's County's rate of about 79%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Lake Arbor Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 20.3%, the actual is 34.0%, a residual of +13.6 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Prince George's County put the typical household earns roughly $101,798 per year, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Prince George's County's 203 public schools (combined enrollment of about 132,693 students), Lake Arbor Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Ernest Everett Just Middle, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Lake Arbor Elementary comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 39.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 3%: 574 students in 2018 compared to 593 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment declined from 95% to 90% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 in 2025.

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