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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at Park Hall Elementary this year?
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Enrollment
569
Elementary
DISTRICT 419 · STATE 481
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ST. MARY'S COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240060001234
Park Hall Elementary
20343 Hermanville Rd, Park Hall, MD 20667 · (301) 863-4054 · St. Mary's County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL569 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 66% of Maryland public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.9:1
38 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.7:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
59%
333 students
DISTRICT 43% · 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 | 51 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 89 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 78 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 90 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 74 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 96 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 91 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (89) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (91).
Student demographics
69%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 60% · 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
55.0%
MD avg 50.6% . +5.0pp since 2023
Math
45.6%
MD avg 34.8% . +4.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 46 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 55.0% | 45.6% |
| 2023-24 | 50.0% | 41.4% |
% 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
48.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.6%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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 Park Hall Elementary
Park Hall Elementary's state test result (48.0% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Park Hall Elementary this school | 569 | 58.5% | 48.0% |
| Pocomoke Elementary Pocomoke City | 491 | 55.4% | 70.0% |
| Church Creek Elementary Belcamp | 732 | 60.0% | 45.0% |
| Green Holly Elementary School Lexington Park | 478 | 63.0% | 55.8% |
| Villa Cresta Elementary Baltimore | 609 | 52.9% | 37.5% |
| Joppatowne Elementary Joppa | 495 | 65.3% | 30.3% |
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 Park Hall Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In St. Mary's County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 48.0% | #360 of 853 | #11 of 19 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 45.6% | #358 of 853 ▲ 33 | #12 of 19 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 55.0% | #356 of 853 ▲ 11 | #11 of 19 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 569 | #256 of 898 | #2 of 19 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.9:1 | #570 of 857 | #11 of 19 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.1% | #206 of 857 | #3 of 19 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 58.5% | #432 of 885 | #4 of 19 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.5% | #335 of 551 | #11 of 15 |
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
569
+22 (+4%) vs 2020
+53% since 1990-91, when it was 373
Student : Teacher
14.9:1
was 14.0:1
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 | 569 | 38.2 | 14.9:1 | 59% (333) |
| 2023-24 | 531 | 36.1 | 14.7:1 | 56% (295) |
| 2022-23 | 501 | 35.1 | 14.3:1 | 63% (316) |
| 2020-21 | 547 | 39 | 14.0:1 | 59% (322) |
| 2017-18 | 636 | 40.4 | 15.7:1 | 57% (362) |
| 2015-16 | 635 | 39 | 16.3:1 | 54% (344) |
| 2010-11 | 559 | 38 | 14.7:1 | 53% (298) |
| 2000-01 | 523 | 31 | 16.9:1 | 36% (186) |
| 1990-91 | 373 | 19 | 19.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Park Hall Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 11% (636 to 569); teachers down 5% (40.4 to 38.2).
About Park Hall Elementary
Park Hall Elementary is an elementary school located in Park Hall, Maryland, in St. Mary's County. Classes run from pre-K through 5, and the school has 569 students.
Park Hall Elementary is one of the 26 schools that make up St. Mary's County Public Schools (16,905 students in total).
No single group makes up more than half of enrollment at Park Hall Elementary. The largest is Black students, at 42%. The remaining shares are 32% White, 13% multiracial, 10% Hispanic, and 2% Asian. Census estimates put the Black share of St. Mary's County's population at about 15%. Pick two students at random and there is a 69% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The ratio of students to teachers is 14.9:1, with 38.2 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff. That is 1.1 students per teacher above the 13.8:1 average for elementary schools in Maryland. The percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 59%. Among public schools in St. Mary's County, the average eligibility rate is 41%.
Measured against Maryland public elementary schools, Park Hall Elementary receives a B+. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Park Hall Elementary falls in the middle 80% of Maryland schools: 48.0% actual against 39.6% predicted.
Census Bureau estimates for St. Mary's County show that the median household income is $119,446, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 37%, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. Park Hall Elementary is one of 28 public schools in the county.
George Washington Carver Elementary is located about 2.4 miles from Park Hall Elementary. Around the school, 6 other public schools are within five miles. Of 9 schools in the immediate area with test results, Park Hall Elementary ranks 3rd on average proficiency.
In the federal locale system, Park Hall Elementary is coded Rural: Fringe, for schools in rural territory close to an urban area.
Enrollment climbed 4% from its 2020-21 level of 547.
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St. Mary's County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
115,126
Census ACS
Median income
$119,446
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
37%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
28
16,905 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in St. Mary's County Public Schools
- Leonardtown HighHigh · 2,118 students
- Great Mills HighHigh · 1,697 students
- Chopticon HighHigh · 1,526 students
- Leonardtown MiddleMiddle · 969 students
- Spring Ridge MiddleMiddle · 913 students
- Margaret Brent MiddleMiddle · 878 students
Nearby schools
- George Washington Carver Elementary2.4 mi · 460
- Lexington Park Elementary2.5 mi · 383
- Great Mills High2.5 mi · 1,697
- Chesapeake Charter School2.6 mi · 539
- Spring Ridge Middle2.9 mi · 913
- Greenview Knolls Elementary4.5 mi · 294
Frequently asked questions
About Park Hall ElementaryHow many students attend Park Hall Elementary?
Park Hall Elementary enrolls approximately 569 students in grades PK-05.
Is Park Hall Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Park Hall Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Park Hall Elementary have?
Park Hall Elementary employs 38 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.9:1.
What is the student diversity at Park Hall Elementary?
Student demographics at Park Hall Elementary are roughly 32% White, 10% Hispanic, 42% Black, 2% Asian, 13% Two or more.
Is Park Hall Elementary public or private?
Park Hall Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by St. Mary's County Public Schools.
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