Mary B. Neal Elementary School

Mary B. Neal Elementary School is one of the moderately sized elementary schools in Waldorf, Maryland, part of Charles County Public Schools, with 626 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Maryland's public schools average about 481 students each, so Mary B. Neal Elementary School sits 30% bigger than that benchmark.

Within Charles County Public Schools, which oversees 38 schools and 28,162 students, Mary B. Neal Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Mary B. Neal Elementary School records that Black students make up the majority at 76%. Other groups include 10% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 4% Asian, 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 49% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Around 49% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Mary B. Neal Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 45.5%, the actual is 45.5%, a residual of +0.1 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Charles County put median household income runs about $122,816, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Charles County runs 40 public schools (combined enrollment of about 28,162 students), of which Mary B. Neal Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Eva Turner Elementary School, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Mary B. Neal Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Mary B. Neal Elementary School comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 26.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Mary B. Neal Elementary School's enrollment has edged down 12% since 2018, when it stood at 714 (now 626).

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