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What's the one class at Oaklands Elementary every student should take?
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Enrollment
483
Elementary
DISTRICT 457 · STATE 481
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240051001117
Oaklands Elementary
13710 Laurel Bowie Rd, Laurel, MD 20708 · (301) 497-3110 · Prince George's County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL483 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 8% of Maryland public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
12.5:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.3:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
90%
436 students
DISTRICT 79% · STATE 54%
Community
5
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 | 38 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 97 | 20% |
| Grade 1 | 78 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 65 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 82 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 56 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 67 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (97) is 45% larger than its 5th grade class (67).
Student demographics
52%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
26.3%
MD avg 50.6% . +2.2pp since 2023
Math
11.0%
MD avg 34.8% . +0.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 26 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 11 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 26.3% | 11.0% |
| 2023-24 | 24.1% | 10.7% |
% 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
18.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
20.8%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 18% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 21% 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 Oaklands Elementary
Oaklands Elementary's state test result (18.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oaklands Elementary this school | 483 | 90.3% | 18.0% |
| Laurel Elementary Laurel | 472 | 90.9% | 34.8% |
| Gaywood Elementary Lanham | 525 | 90.5% | 30.1% |
| Judge Sylvania W. Woods Sr. Elementary Glenarden | 540 | 94.1% | 17.1% |
| Lamont Elementary New Carrollton | 460 | 92.6% | 31.7% |
| Carrollton Elementary New Carrollton | 539 | 92.9% | 20.3% |
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 Oaklands Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Prince George's County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 18.0% | #813 of 853 | #125 of 136 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 11.0% | #839 of 853 ▼ 8 | #132 of 136 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 26.3% | #762 of 853 ▼ 20 | #111 of 136 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 483 | #416 of 898 | #53 of 145 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.5:1 | #233 of 857 | #49 of 141 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.0% | #494 of 857 | #58 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 90.3% | #86 of 885 | #72 of 144 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +17.2% | #89 of 294 | #12 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
483
+125 (+35%) vs 2020
-10% since 1990-91, when it was 537
Student : Teacher
12.5:1
was 13.8:1
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 | 483 | 38.7 | 12.5:1 | 90% (436) |
| 2023-24 | 462 | 35.2 | 13.1:1 | 89% (409) |
| 2022-23 | 395 | 29.7 | 13.3:1 | 92% (364) |
| 2020-21 | 358 | 26 | 13.8:1 | 86% (307) |
| 2017-18 | 412 | 27.2 | 15.2:1 | 83% (343) |
| 2015-16 | 427 | 26 | 16.4:1 | 81% (345) |
| 2010-11 | 428 | 24 | 17.8:1 | 72% (309) |
| 2000-01 | 527 | 27 | 19.5:1 | 41% (216) |
| 1990-91 | 537 | 24 | 22.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Oaklands Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 17% (412 to 483); teachers up 42% (27.2 to 38.7).
About Oaklands Elementary
Oaklands Elementary is a public medium-sized elementary school in Laurel, Maryland. Grades offered run from pre-K through 5, with 483 students enrolled.
The district for Oaklands Elementary is Prince George's County Public Schools, with 199 schools and 132,693 students.
Roughly 61% of students at Oaklands Elementary are Hispanic. The rest of enrollment is 32% Black, 3% Asian, and 2% White. Among all residents of Prince George's County, the Hispanic share is about 23%. Oaklands Elementary's diversity index is 52%, against a US figure of 70%.
Oaklands Elementary's 38.7 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 12.5:1. On average, elementary schools in Maryland have 13.8:1, compared with 12.5:1 here. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 90%. The gap from the 79% average for public schools in Prince George's County is 11 points.
Oaklands Elementary is graded D by allk12, scoring above 8% of Maryland public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
After adjusting for student poverty, Oaklands Elementary lands between the top and bottom 10% of Maryland schools. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 18.0%; the prediction is 20.8%.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Prince George's County show that the median household income is $101,798, about 37% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 7%. Besides Oaklands Elementary, Prince George's County has 202 other public schools.
The closest public school, Dwight D. Eisenhower Middle, is about 0.3 miles from Oaklands Elementary. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Ranked by average proficiency, Oaklands Elementary places 9th out of 9 schools in its immediate area.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school enrolled 483 students in 2024-25, 125 more than the 358 it had in 2020-21. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (12.5:1) than in 2020-21 (13.8:1).
Community posts for Oaklands Elementary can cover enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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
Nearby schools
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Middle0.3 mi · 1,047
- Deerfield Run Elementary0.6 mi · 482
- James H. Harrison Elementary0.8 mi · 304
- Monarch Global Academy PCS Laurel Campus1.4 mi · 830
- Laurel High1.4 mi · 2,129
- Brock Bridge Elementary1.6 mi · 514
Frequently asked questions
About Oaklands ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Oaklands Elementary?
Oaklands Elementary enrolls approximately 483 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Oaklands Elementary serve?
Oaklands Elementary serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Oaklands Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Oaklands Elementary is approximately 12.5:1 (39 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Oaklands Elementary?
At Oaklands Elementary, the student body is approximately 2% White, 61% Hispanic, 32% Black, 3% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Oaklands Elementary?
Oaklands Elementary 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.