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How has Montpelier Elementary changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
573
Elementary
DISTRICT 457 · STATE 481
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240051001108
Montpelier Elementary
9200 Muirkirk Rd, Laurel, MD 20708 · (301) 497-3670 · Prince George's County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL573 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 66% 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.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
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
14.5:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.3:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
91%
521 students
DISTRICT 79% · STATE 54%
Community
6
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 | 40 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 89 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 93 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 90 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 84 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 88 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 89 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (89) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (89).
Student demographics
54%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
47.4%
MD avg 50.6% . +9.5pp since 2023
Math
31.4%
MD avg 34.8% . -3.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 31 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Maryland schools, those numbers are about 51 and 35. Reading and writing scores are up about 10 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 47.4% | 31.4% |
| 2023-24 | 37.9% | 34.9% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of MD schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
37.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
20.4%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+17.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 38% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 20% typical for Maryland schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 17 points, placing it in Maryland's top 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 Montpelier Elementary
Montpelier Elementary's state test result (37.9% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montpelier Elementary this school | 573 | 90.9% | 37.9% |
| Panorama Elementary Temple Hills | 554 | 91.0% | 27.6% |
| Waldon Woods Elementary Clinton | 523 | 92.0% | 27.4% |
| Deerfield Run Elementary Laurel | 482 | 89.8% | 24.1% |
| Van Bokkelen Elementary Severn | 471 | 87.0% | 21.5% |
| Ardmore Elementary Springdale | 470 | 92.3% | 36.1% |
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 Montpelier Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Prince George's County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 37.9% | #500 of 853 | #28 of 136 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 31.4% | #572 of 853 ▼ 94 | #45 of 136 ▼ 18 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 47.4% | #463 of 853 ▲ 79 | #29 of 136 ▲ 24 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 573 | #249 of 898 | #27 of 145 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.5:1 | #518 of 857 | #110 of 141 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 54.2% | #463 of 857 | #48 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 90.9% | #76 of 885 | #63 of 144 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +0.4% | #290 of 294 | #39 of 39 |
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
573
-4 (-1%) vs 2020
+5% since 1990-91, when it was 544
Student : Teacher
14.5:1
was 14.8:1
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 | 573 | 39.4 | 14.5:1 | 91% (521) |
| 2023-24 | 571 | 35.4 | 16.1:1 | 75% (431) |
| 2022-23 | 562 | 36.4 | 15.4:1 | 78% (437) |
| 2020-21 | 577 | 39 | 14.8:1 | 67% (384) |
| 2017-18 | 571 | 35.8 | 15.9:1 | 63% (362) |
| 2015-16 | 586 | 35 | 16.7:1 | 61% (357) |
| 2010-11 | 701 | 38 | 18.4:1 | 56% (392) |
| 2000-01 | 580 | 28 | 20.7:1 | 20% (117) |
| 1990-91 | 544 | 21 | 25.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Montpelier Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students unchanged (571 to 573); teachers up 10% (35.8 to 39.4).
About Montpelier Elementary
In Laurel, Maryland, Montpelier Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school. Federal data show 573 students enrolled in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25.
Prince George's County Public Schools counts 132,693 students in its 199 schools, and Montpelier Elementary is one of them.
About 61% of the student body at Montpelier Elementary is Black. Smaller groups are 29% Hispanic, 4% White, and 3% multiracial. Prince George's County residents are about 59% Black, a similar share. A diversity index of 54% means there is a 54% chance two randomly chosen students at Montpelier Elementary are from different groups.
Montpelier Elementary has 39.4 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.5:1. The school's 14.5:1 compares with an average of 13.8:1 for elementary schools in Maryland. The school has 91% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The rate at public schools in Prince George's County averages 79%, lower than here.
Among Maryland public elementary schools, Montpelier Elementary outscored 66%, which works out to a B+ on the allk12 Grade.
Montpelier Elementary posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 37.9%. Schools with its free or reduced-price lunch share in Maryland are predicted to post 20.4%, so the school is 17.5 points ahead and in the state's top 10%.
In Prince George's County, where the school is located, the median household earns about $101,798 a year, roughly 37% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Montpelier Elementary, Prince George's County has 203 public schools.
Among nearby public schools, Deerfield Run Elementary is closest at about 1.2 miles. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Montpelier Elementary comes in 2nd of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment went from 577 in 2020-21 to 573 in 2024-25, a change of 4 students.
Parents, students, and staff can share information on athletics, class schedules, and weather closures here. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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 Laurel
- Laurel HighHigh · 2,129 students
- Chesapeake Math and IT Public CharterCombined · 1,681 students
- Dwight D. Eisenhower MiddleMiddle · 1,047 students
- Monarch Global Academy PCS Laurel CampusElementary · 830 students
- Hammond ElementaryElementary · 763 students
- Gorman Crossing ElementaryElementary · 750 students
Other Montpelier Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Montpelier Elementary. Montpelier Elementary is the largest of the 3.
- Montpelier Elementary SchoolMontpelier, OH · 471 students
- MONTPELIER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLMontpelier, ND · 61 students
Nearby schools
- Deerfield Run Elementary1.2 mi · 482
- James H. Harrison Elementary1.5 mi · 304
- Oaklands Elementary1.7 mi · 483
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Middle1.8 mi · 1,047
- Vansville Elementary2.3 mi · 677
- Monarch Global Academy PCS Laurel Campus2.5 mi · 830
Frequently asked questions
About Montpelier ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Montpelier Elementary?
Montpelier Elementary enrolls approximately 573 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Montpelier Elementary serve?
Montpelier Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does Montpelier Elementary have?
Montpelier Elementary employs 39 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.5:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Montpelier Elementary?
At Montpelier Elementary, the student body is approximately 4% White, 29% Hispanic, 61% Black, 2% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is Montpelier Elementary public or private?
Montpelier Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Prince George's County Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.