Legends Public Charter School

Legends Public Charter School is an expansive elementary-level community in Lanham, Maryland, overseen by Prince George's County Public Schools. The school works with 897 students in grades K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 481 students per school, that is 86% bigger than typical.

Within Prince George's County Public Schools, which oversees 199 schools and 132,693 students, Legends Public Charter School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Legends Public Charter School records that 83% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Beyond that, the school logs 13% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 59% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Legends Public Charter School reports 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 23.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Legends Public Charter School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 66% of students at Legends Public Charter School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Prince George's County's rate of about 79%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Legends Public Charter School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 35.3%; this one delivers 36.1%.

Across the wider county, 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%. In all, Prince George's County runs 203 public schools (combined enrollment of about 132,693 students), of which Legends Public Charter School is one.

Thomas Johnson Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Legends Public Charter School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 30.9%.

The school occupies a residential site. Legends Public Charter School is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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