Enrollment
383
Elementary
DISTRICT 419 · STATE 481
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ST. MARY'S COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240060001230
Lexington Park Elementary
46763 Shangri La Dr, Lexington Park, MD 20653 · (301) 863-4085 · St. Mary's County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL383 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 7% of Maryland public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
12.4:1
31 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.7:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
76%
291 students
DISTRICT 43% · STATE 54%
Community
0
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 | 39 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 55 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 55 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 54 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 58 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 60 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 62 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (55) is 11% smaller than its 5th grade class (62).
Student demographics
66%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 60% · 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
22.5%
MD avg 50.6% . -4.3pp since 2023
Math
15.5%
MD avg 34.8% . -7.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 23 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 16 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 8 points.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 22.5% | 15.5% |
| 2023-24 | 26.8% | 23.2% |
% 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
22.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
29.3%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 22% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 29% 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 Lexington Park Elementary
Lexington Park Elementary's state test result (22.0% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lexington Park Elementary this school | 383 | 76.0% | 22.0% |
| Mars Estates Elementary Baltimore | 400 | 75.8% | 27.1% |
| George Washington Carver Elementary Great Mills | 460 | 76.3% | 36.1% |
| Oakleigh Elementary Baltimore | 452 | 73.5% | 25.5% |
| East Salisbury Elementary Salisbury | 486 | 73.5% | 25.9% |
| Shady Spring Elementary Baltimore | 375 | 73.1% | 35.6% |
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 Lexington Park Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In St. Mary's County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 22.0% | #765 of 853 | #19 of 19 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 15.5% | #795 of 853 ▼ 146 | #19 of 19 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 22.5% | #802 of 853 ▼ 91 | #19 of 19 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 383 | #630 of 898 | #13 of 19 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.4:1 | #230 of 857 | #3 of 19 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.7% | #287 of 857 | #5 of 19 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 76.0% | #214 of 885 | #2 of 19 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -28.9% | #70 of 551 | #2 of 15 |
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
383
-62 (-14%) vs 2020
-17% since 1990-91, when it was 459
Student : Teacher
12.4:1
was 14.3:1
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 | 383 | 30.8 | 12.4:1 | 76% (291) |
| 2023-24 | 418 | 30.7 | 13.6:1 | 75% (312) |
| 2022-23 | 398 | 31.1 | 12.8:1 | 83% (329) |
| 2020-21 | 445 | 31 | 14.3:1 | 65% (289) |
| 2017-18 | 539 | 36.4 | 14.8:1 | 63% (341) |
| 2015-16 | 628 | 32 | 19.6:1 | 63% (394) |
| 2010-11 | 495 | 30 | 16.5:1 | 60% (296) |
| 2000-01 | 329 | 22 | 14.9:1 | 68% (223) |
| 1990-91 | 459 | 23 | 20.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lexington Park Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 29% (539 to 383); teachers down 15% (36.4 to 30.8).
About Lexington Park Elementary
In Lexington Park, Maryland, part of St. Mary's County, Lexington Park Elementary is an elementary school. Students in pre-K through 5 attend the school, which enrolls 383 students. For comparison, elementary schools in Maryland average about 481 students.
St. Mary's County Public Schools is the local district for Lexington Park Elementary. It runs 26 schools with 16,905 students.
At Lexington Park Elementary, Black students make up 51% of the student body. Next come 22% Hispanic, 12% White, and 12% multiracial. The county population is about 15% Black. Lexington Park Elementary's diversity index is 66%, against a US figure of 70%.
With 30.8 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, the ratio at Lexington Park Elementary was 12.4:1. This ratio sits 1.4 below the 13.8:1 average for elementary schools in Maryland. A measure often used for student poverty, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, stands at 76%. Among public schools in St. Mary's County, the average eligibility rate is 41%.
allk12 grades Lexington Park Elementary a D. The grade compares the school only with Maryland public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
After adjusting for student poverty, Lexington Park Elementary lands between the top and bottom 10% of Maryland schools. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 22.0%; the prediction is 29.3%.
Census Bureau estimates for St. Mary's County show that the median household income is $119,446, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of people live in poverty. Lexington Park Elementary is one of 28 public schools in the county.
The closest public school to Lexington Park Elementary is George Washington Carver Elementary, about 1.4 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Lexington Park Elementary is 9th of 9 on proficiency.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is City: Small.
Federal data show a 14% enrollment decrease, from 445 in 2020-21 to 383 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 14.3:1 to 12.4:1.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss school safety, transportation, and start times at Lexington Park Elementary. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
St. Mary's County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
115,126
Census ACS
Median income
$119,446
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
37%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
28
16,905 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in St. Mary's County Public Schools
- Leonardtown HighHigh · 2,118 students
- Great Mills HighHigh · 1,697 students
- Chopticon HighHigh · 1,526 students
- Leonardtown MiddleMiddle · 969 students
- Spring Ridge MiddleMiddle · 913 students
- Margaret Brent MiddleMiddle · 878 students
Other schools in Lexington Park
- Spring Ridge MiddleMiddle · 913 students
- Esperanza MiddleMiddle · 835 students
- Chesapeake Charter SchoolElementary · 539 students
- Green Holly Elementary SchoolElementary · 478 students
- Town Creek ElementaryElementary · 220 students
- St. Mary's County Evening HighCombined
Nearby schools
- George Washington Carver Elementary1.4 mi · 460
- Great Mills High1.8 mi · 1,697
- Chesapeake Charter School2.2 mi · 539
- Greenview Knolls Elementary2.4 mi · 294
- Park Hall Elementary2.5 mi · 569
- Green Holly Elementary School2.7 mi · 478
Frequently asked questions
About Lexington Park ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Lexington Park Elementary?
Lexington Park Elementary enrolls approximately 383 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Lexington Park Elementary serve?
Lexington Park Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Lexington Park Elementary?
Approximately 12.4:1 students per teacher at Lexington Park Elementary.
How diverse is Lexington Park Elementary?
Lexington Park Elementary reports a student body of 12% White, 22% Hispanic, 51% Black, 2% Asian, 12% Two or more.
What district is Lexington Park Elementary in?
Lexington Park Elementary is part of St. Mary's County Public Schools.
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