Mt Hope/Nanjemoy Elementary School

Mt Hope/Nanjemoy Elementary School is one of the small K-5 schools in Nanjemoy, Maryland, one of the schools within Charles County Public Schools, with 269 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 44% leaner than the typical public school in Maryland, which averages around 481 students.

Charles County Public Schools runs 38 schools in total, collectively educating 28,162 students. Mt Hope/Nanjemoy Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Mt Hope/Nanjemoy Elementary School records that 57% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 26% Black, 9% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 33% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school employs 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Roughly 56% of students at Mt Hope/Nanjemoy Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Mt Hope/Nanjemoy Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 41.0%; this one delivers 43.4%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Charles County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $122,816 per year, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Mt Hope/Nanjemoy Elementary School is one of 40 public schools in Charles County (combined enrollment of about 28,162 students).

The closest other public school is Gale-Bailey Elementary School, roughly 7.3 miles away. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mt Hope/Nanjemoy Elementary School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 54.8%.

Mt Hope/Nanjemoy Elementary School operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mt Hope/Nanjemoy Elementary School has contracted 9%, going from 295 students in 2018 to 269 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 1% to 9% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 11.2:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, the feed for Mt Hope/Nanjemoy Elementary School typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.