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Enrollment
533
Elementary
DISTRICT 457 · STATE 481
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240051001093
Lewisdale Elementary
2400 Banning Pl, Hyattsville, MD 20783 · (301) 445-8433 · Prince George's County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL533 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 34% of Maryland public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Maryland public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
11.8:1
45 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.3:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
91%
487 students
DISTRICT 79% · STATE 54%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 38 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 79 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 98 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 76 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 88 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 74 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 80 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (79) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (80).
Student demographics
17%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 58% · STATE 73% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
MCAP 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 3-4)English Language Arts
27.0%
MD avg 50.6% . -7.6pp since 2023
Math
24.3%
MD avg 34.8% . +4.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 27 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 24 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Maryland schools, those numbers are about 51 and 35. Reading and writing scores are down about 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 27.0% | 24.3% |
| 2023-24 | 34.6% | 19.9% |
% Proficient (Levels 3-4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: MCAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
26.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
20.2%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 26% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 20% typical for Maryland schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Maryland's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Lewisdale Elementary
Lewisdale Elementary's state test result (26.4% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lewisdale Elementary this school | 533 | 91.4% | 26.4% |
| Carole Highlands Elementary Takoma Park | 544 | 92.5% | 14.2% |
| Rosa L. Parks Elementary Hyattsville | 607 | 89.6% | 15.6% |
| Rogers Heights Elementary Bladensburg | 450 | 94.9% | 24.0% |
| Hillcrest Elementary Frederick | 581 | 91.0% | 28.7% |
| Cool Spring Elementary Adelphi | 458 | 95.9% | 21.7% |
Matched among Maryland elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Lewisdale Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Prince George's County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 26.4% | #686 of 853 | #80 of 136 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 24.3% | #676 of 853 ▲ 32 | #73 of 136 ▲ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 27.0% | #752 of 853 ▼ 161 | #107 of 136 ▼ 42 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 533 | #313 of 898 | #36 of 145 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.8:1 | #152 of 857 | #30 of 141 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 17.0% | #811 of 857 | #130 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 91.4% | #68 of 885 | #56 of 144 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -22.5% | #120 of 551 | #31 of 99 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
533
-81 (-13%) vs 2020
-11% since 1990-91, when it was 597
Student : Teacher
11.8:1
was 13.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 533 | 45.3 | 11.8:1 | 91% (487) |
| 2023-24 | 565 | 42.3 | 13.4:1 | 87% (489) |
| 2022-23 | 617 | 48.3 | 12.8:1 | 92% (570) |
| 2020-21 | 614 | 44 | 13.9:1 | 81% (499) |
| 2017-18 | 688 | 49.9 | 13.8:1 | 89% (609) |
| 2015-16 | 702 | 51 | 13.8:1 | 90% (631) |
| 2010-11 | 632 | 45 | 14.0:1 | 88% (555) |
| 2000-01 | 789 | 39 | 20.2:1 | 80% (632) |
| 1990-91 | 597 | 27 | 22.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lewisdale Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 23% (688 to 533); teachers down 9% (49.9 to 45.3).
About Lewisdale Elementary
Lewisdale Elementary is a medium-sized elementary school with an address in Hyattsville, Maryland. The school reports 533 students in pre-K through 5.
Prince George's County Public Schools (199 schools, 132,693 students) runs Lewisdale Elementary.
Federal enrollment data show Lewisdale Elementary is 91% Hispanic. Other groups include 7% Black. The county population is about 23% Hispanic. Pick two students at random and there is a 17% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Lewisdale Elementary counts 45.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 11.8 students for each one. This ratio sits 2.1 below the 13.8:1 average for elementary schools in Maryland. About 91% of students at the school meet free or reduced-price lunch income limits. It compares with 79% for public schools in Prince George's County.
Lewisdale Elementary is graded C by allk12, scoring above 34% of Maryland public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Lewisdale Elementary is 6.3 points above its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests (26.4% versus 20.2%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Maryland.
In the county around the school, Prince George's County, the median household income is $101,798, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of people live in poverty. There are 203 public schools in Prince George's County, enrolling about 132,693 students in all.
Nearby, Rosa L. Parks Elementary is about 0.7 miles away. Within five miles of Lewisdale Elementary, there are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, Lewisdale Elementary is 4th of 9 nearby schools with test data.
The NCES locale for Lewisdale Elementary is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment dropped 13% from its 2020-21 level of 614. The ratio of students to teachers went from 13.9:1 to 11.8:1 over the same years.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news at Lewisdale Elementary. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Prince George's County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
959,754
Census ACS
Median income
$101,798
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
37%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
203
132,693 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Prince George's County Public Schools
- High Point HighHigh · 3,012 students
- Charles Herbert Flowers HighHigh · 2,712 students
- Parkdale HighHigh · 2,588 students
- Bowie HighHigh · 2,580 students
- Eleanor Roosevelt HighHigh · 2,544 students
- Duval HighHigh · 2,522 students
Other schools in Hyattsville
- Northwestern HighHigh · 2,396 students
- Hyattsville MiddleMiddle · 1,305 students
- Ellen Ochoa MiddleMiddle · 1,086 students
- Nicholas Orem MiddleMiddle · 1,007 students
- Langley Park-McCormick ElementaryElementary · 697 students
- Edward M. Felegy ESElementary · 641 students
Nearby schools
- Rosa L. Parks Elementary0.7 mi · 607
- Northwestern High0.7 mi · 2,396
- Edward M. Felegy ES0.8 mi · 641
- Cesar Chavez Elementary0.8 mi · 355
- Nicholas Orem Middle0.8 mi · 1,007
- Carole Highlands Elementary1.0 mi · 544
Frequently asked questions
About Lewisdale ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Lewisdale Elementary?
Lewisdale Elementary enrolls approximately 533 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Lewisdale Elementary serve?
Lewisdale Elementary serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Lewisdale Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Lewisdale Elementary is approximately 11.8:1 (45 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Lewisdale Elementary?
At Lewisdale Elementary, the student body is approximately 2% White, 91% Hispanic, 7% Black, 1% Asian.
Who oversees Lewisdale Elementary?
Lewisdale Elementary is overseen by Prince George's County Public Schools in Prince George's County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.