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Enrollment
1,007
Middle
DISTRICT 933 · STATE 764
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240051001112
Nicholas Orem Middle
6100 Editors Park Dr, Hyattsville, MD 20782 · (301) 853-0840 · Prince George's County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,007 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 62% of Maryland public middle schools
- CTest 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.
- ·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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
16.2:1
62 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.3:1 · STATE 14.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
97%
975 students
DISTRICT 79% · STATE 54%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 356 | 35% |
| Grade 7 | 314 | 31% |
| Grade 8 | 337 | 33% |
Student demographics
23%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
44.9%
MD avg 50.6% . +0.4pp since 2023
Math
12.3%
MD avg 34.8% . +1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 12 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Maryland schools, those numbers are about 51 and 35. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 44.9% | 12.3% |
| 2023-24 | 44.5% | 11.3% |
% 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
28.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
16.9%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+11.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 28% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 17% 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 Nicholas Orem Middle
Nicholas Orem Middle's state test result (28.3% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nicholas Orem Middle this school | 1,007 | 96.8% | 28.3% |
| Sonia Sotomayor Middle at Adelphi Adelphi | 1,077 | 92.3% | 14.4% |
| Buck Lodge Middle Adelphi | 1,200 | 95.7% | 18.9% |
| William Wirt Middle Riverdale | 1,124 | 96.5% | 23.1% |
| Ellen Ochoa Middle Hyattsville | 1,086 | 97.3% | N/A |
| Charles Carroll Middle New Carrollton | 884 | 96.8% | 20.1% |
Matched among Maryland middle 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 Nicholas Orem Middle ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Prince George's County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 28.3% | #156 of 223 | #7 of 24 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 12.3% | #184 of 223 ▼ 4 | #8 of 24 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.9% | #139 of 223 ▼ 7 | #8 of 24 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,007 | #41 of 230 | #13 of 25 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.2:1 | #183 of 225 | #20 of 25 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 23.3% | #212 of 225 | #24 of 25 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 96.8% | #3 of 227 | #3 of 25 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +2.1% | #83 of 95 | #14 of 17 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
1,007
-132 (-12%) vs 2020
+15% since 1990-91, when it was 879
Student : Teacher
16.2:1
was 14.6:1
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 | 1,007 | 62 | 16.2:1 | 97% (975) |
| 2023-24 | 1,055 | 61 | 17.3:1 | 90% (952) |
| 2022-23 | 1,138 | 68 | 16.7:1 | 92% (1,043) |
| 2020-21 | 1,139 | 78 | 14.6:1 | 90% (1,022) |
| 2017-18 | 986 | 69.5 | 14.2:1 | 90% (889) |
| 2015-16 | 950 | 61 | 15.6:1 | 84% (801) |
| 2010-11 | 659 | 51 | 12.9:1 | 80% (526) |
| 2000-01 | 844 | 50 | 16.9:1 | 58% (490) |
| 1990-91 | 879 | 50 | 17.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Nicholas Orem Middle.
Since 2017-18: students up 2% (986 to 1,007); teachers down 11% (69.5 to 62).
About Nicholas Orem Middle
Nicholas Orem Middle is a mid-sized middle school. Its address is in Hyattsville, Maryland. Enrollment stands at 1,007 students, covering grades 6 through 8. The school is 32% above the average for middle schools in Maryland.
Prince George's County Public Schools, which runs Nicholas Orem Middle, has 199 schools and 132,693 students.
Hispanic students are 87% of those enrolled at Nicholas Orem Middle. Other reported shares: 12% Black. That compares with about 23% Hispanic among all Prince George's County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 23%.
The school has 62 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 16.2 students per teacher. Middle schools in Maryland have an average ratio of 14.3:1. The school reported 97% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. That is higher than the 79% average for public schools in Prince George's County.
Nicholas Orem Middle earns a B on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 62% of Maryland public middle schools.
In Maryland, Nicholas Orem Middle is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 28.3% actual against a predicted 16.9%.
In the surrounding county, Prince George's County, the median household earns about $101,798 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 37%, and about 7% of people live in poverty. Counting Nicholas Orem Middle, Prince George's County has 203 public schools.
Measured in a straight line, Edward M. Felegy ES is about 0.2 miles from Nicholas Orem Middle. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Nicholas Orem Middle is 4th of 9 on proficiency.
Nicholas Orem Middle is coded as Suburb: Large in federal locale data.
The school shrank from 1,139 students in 2020-21 to 1,007 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 14.6:1; by 2024-25 it was 16.2:1.
The discussion board for Nicholas Orem Middle is open to topics like pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
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
- Langley Park-McCormick ElementaryElementary · 697 students
- Edward M. Felegy ESElementary · 641 students
- Ridgecrest ElementaryElementary · 631 students
Nearby schools
- Edward M. Felegy ES0.2 mi · 641
- Rosa L. Parks Elementary0.7 mi · 607
- Northwestern High0.8 mi · 2,396
- Hyattsville Middle0.8 mi · 1,305
- Lewisdale Elementary0.8 mi · 533
- University Park Elementary1.0 mi · 538
Frequently asked questions
About Nicholas Orem MiddleHow large is Nicholas Orem Middle?
Nicholas Orem Middle enrolls approximately 1,007 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Nicholas Orem Middle serve?
Nicholas Orem Middle serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Nicholas Orem Middle?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Nicholas Orem Middle is approximately 16.2:1 (62 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Nicholas Orem Middle?
Student demographics at Nicholas Orem Middle are roughly 1% White, 87% Hispanic, 12% Black, 0% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Nicholas Orem Middle?
Nicholas Orem Middle 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.