Enrollment
326
Elementary
DISTRICT 457 · STATE 481
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240051001130
Phyllis E. Williams Elementary
9850 Good Luck Rd, Seabrook, MD 20706 · (301) 499-3373 · Prince George's County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL326 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 86% of Maryland public elementary schools
- A-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.
- ·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
13.4:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.3:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
37%
122 students
DISTRICT 79% · STATE 54%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 53 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 64 | 20% |
| Grade 2 | 61 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 48 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 53 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 47 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (53) is 13% larger than its 5th grade class (47).
Student demographics
42%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
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MCAP 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 3-4)English Language Arts
72.4%
MD avg 50.6% . +1.0pp since 2023
Math
65.9%
MD avg 34.8% . +14.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 72 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 66 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 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 15 points.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 72.4% | 65.9% |
| 2023-24 | 71.4% | 51.4% |
% 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
65.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.1%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+13.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 65% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 52% 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 Phyllis E. Williams Elementary
Phyllis E. Williams Elementary's state test result (65.3% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Phyllis E. Williams Elementary this school | 326 | 37.4% | 65.3% |
| Overlook Elementary Temple Hills | 255 | 37.3% | 26.3% |
| Judith P. Hoyer Montessori Landover | 361 | 42.4% | 48.0% |
| Heather Hills Elementary Bowie | 361 | 37.7% | 88.3% |
| Maya Angelou French Immersion Temple Hills | 363 | 40.5% | 47.7% |
| Watershed Public Charter Woodlawn | 366 | 33.9% | 41.3% |
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 Phyllis E. Williams Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Prince George's County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 65.3% | #151 of 853 | #3 of 136 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 65.9% | #140 of 853 ▲ 131 | #5 of 136 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 72.4% | #120 of 853 ▼ 3 | #4 of 136 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 326 | #718 of 898 | #110 of 145 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.4:1 | #351 of 857 | #80 of 141 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 42.2% | #606 of 857 | #89 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 37.4% | #645 of 885 | #139 of 144 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.4% | #383 of 551 | #80 of 99 |
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
326
-66 (-17%) vs 2020
-55% since 1990-91, when it was 719
Student : Teacher
13.4:1
was 12.7:1
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 | 326 | 24.3 | 13.4:1 | 37% (122) |
| 2023-24 | 349 | 23.8 | 14.7:1 | 37% (129) |
| 2022-23 | 354 | 26.8 | 13.2:1 | 34% (121) |
| 2020-21 | 392 | 31 | 12.7:1 | 28% (111) |
| 2017-18 | 356 | 28.4 | 12.5:1 | 33% (119) |
| 2015-16 | 314 | 21 | 14.9:1 | 37% (116) |
| 2010-11 | 408 | 22 | 18.6:1 | 49% (198) |
| 2000-01 | 738 | 36 | 20.5:1 | 39% (285) |
| 1990-91 | 719 | 33 | 21.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Phyllis E. Williams Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 8% (356 to 326); teachers down 14% (28.4 to 24.3).
About Phyllis E. Williams Elementary
Phyllis E. Williams Elementary is a small elementary school based in Seabrook, Maryland. The school serves kindergarten through 5. Enrollment is 326 students. It has 32% fewer students than the average for elementary schools in Maryland (about 481).
Prince George's County Public Schools is the local district for Phyllis E. Williams Elementary. It runs 199 schools with 132,693 students.
The share of Black students at Phyllis E. Williams Elementary is 74%, a majority. The remaining students are 18% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, and 3% White. Census figures show Prince George's County is about 59% Black. A diversity index of 42% means there is a 42% chance two randomly chosen students at Phyllis E. Williams Elementary are from different groups.
Phyllis E. Williams Elementary has 24.3 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.4:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in Maryland is similar, at 13.8:1. At Phyllis E. Williams Elementary, 37% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. That rate is below the 79% average among public schools in Prince George's County.
Phyllis E. Williams Elementary earns an A on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 86% of Maryland public elementary schools.
The school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 65.3%. For its free or reduced-price lunch share, the predicted value is 52.1%.
For Prince George's County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $101,798, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 37%, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. The county has 203 public schools and about 132,693 students.
Academy of Health Sciences at PGCC, about 0.5 miles away, is the closest public school. Within five miles of Phyllis E. Williams Elementary, there are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, Phyllis E. Williams Elementary is 2nd of 8 nearby schools with test data.
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.
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment fell 17%.
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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 Seabrook
- Robert Goddard MontessoriElementary · 464 students
- Seabrook ElementaryElementary · 365 students
Nearby schools
- Academy of Health Sciences at PGCC0.5 mi · 462
- International High school @ Largo1.1 mi · 354
- Thomas G. Pullen1.1 mi · 740
- Largo High1.1 mi · 1,159
- Lake Arbor Elementary1.1 mi · 593
- H Winship Wheatley E C C1.3 mi · 345
Frequently asked questions
About Phyllis E. Williams ElementaryHow large is Phyllis E. Williams Elementary?
Phyllis E. Williams Elementary enrolls approximately 326 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Phyllis E. Williams Elementary serve?
Phyllis E. Williams Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Phyllis E. Williams Elementary?
Approximately 13.4:1 students per teacher at Phyllis E. Williams Elementary.
How diverse is Phyllis E. Williams Elementary?
Phyllis E. Williams Elementary reports a student body of 3% White, 18% Hispanic, 74% Black, 1% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Phyllis E. Williams Elementary?
Phyllis E. Williams 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.