Enrollment
319
Elementary
DISTRICT 457 · STATE 481
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240051001144
Rockledge Elementary
7701 Laurel Bowie Rd, Bowie, MD 20715 · (301) 805-2720 · Prince George's County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL319 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 26% of Maryland public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-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
14.0:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.3:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
62%
199 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 35 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 43 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 34 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 44 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 62 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 53 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 48 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (43) is 10% smaller than its 5th grade class (48).
Student demographics
68%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
42.5%
MD avg 50.6% . +1.0pp since 2023
Math
28.4%
MD avg 34.8% . +6.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 28 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 6 points.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 42.5% | 28.4% |
| 2023-24 | 41.5% | 22.0% |
% 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
33.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
37.3%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 34% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 37% 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 Rockledge Elementary
Rockledge Elementary's state test result (33.6% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rockledge Elementary this school | 319 | 62.4% | 33.6% |
| Stevens Forest Elementary Columbia | 314 | 59.2% | 51.3% |
| Francis T. Evans Elementary Clinton | 393 | 60.3% | 49.5% |
| Fort Washington Forest Elem Fort Washington | 323 | 60.1% | 34.9% |
| Wellwood International School Pikesville | 316 | 60.4% | 47.6% |
| Elmwood Elementary Baltimore | 396 | 65.2% | 22.2% |
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 Rockledge Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Prince George's County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 33.6% | #575 of 853 | #49 of 136 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 28.4% | #620 of 853 ▲ 49 | #60 of 136 ▲ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 42.5% | #531 of 853 ▼ 47 | #48 of 136 ▼ 8 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 319 | #727 of 898 | #112 of 145 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.0:1 | #445 of 857 | #98 of 141 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.8% | #246 of 857 | #3 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 62.4% | #365 of 885 | #108 of 144 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.3% | #445 of 551 | #90 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
319
-26 (-8%) vs 2020
-35% since 1990-91, when it was 489
Student : Teacher
14.0:1
was 17.3:1
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 | 319 | 22.8 | 14.0:1 | 62% (199) |
| 2023-24 | 336 | 22.8 | 14.7:1 | 57% (193) |
| 2022-23 | 341 | 21.8 | 15.6:1 | 58% (198) |
| 2020-21 | 345 | 20 | 17.3:1 | 44% (153) |
| 2017-18 | 337 | 23 | 14.7:1 | 42% (140) |
| 2015-16 | 393 | 24 | 16.4:1 | 40% (157) |
| 2010-11 | 527 | 26 | 20.3:1 | 31% (163) |
| 2000-01 | 620 | 32 | 19.4:1 | 9% (53) |
| 1990-91 | 489 | 19 | 25.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Rockledge Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 5% (337 to 319); teachers down 1% (23 to 22.8).
About Rockledge Elementary
Rockledge Elementary is listed by the National Center for Education Statistics as an elementary school in Bowie, Maryland. Classes run from pre-K through 5, and the school has 319 students. Against the 481-student average for elementary schools in Maryland, enrollment here is 34% lower.
Rockledge Elementary is one of 199 schools in Prince George's County Public Schools, which enrolls 132,693 students in total.
Rockledge Elementary's enrollment has no majority group, and Black students are the largest at 46%. The school is also 29% Hispanic, 14% White, 5% multiracial, and 5% Asian. The Black share of the county population is higher, at 59%. The chance that two students picked at random at Rockledge Elementary belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 68%.
Staffing totals 22.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 14.0:1. Elementary schools in Maryland average about 13.8:1, a similar figure. Around 62% of the school's students qualify for free or reduced-price meals. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Prince George's County is 79%.
Measured against Maryland public elementary schools, Rockledge Elementary receives a C. 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 BeatsExpectations, Rockledge Elementary is 3.7 points below its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Maryland schools.
Across Prince George's County, median household income is about $101,798, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 37%, and about 7% of people live in poverty. A total of 203 public schools operate in Prince George's County, serving about 132,693 students.
The next-closest public school is Whitehall Elementary, about 0.6 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Nearby schools average 47.2% on proficiency, and Rockledge Elementary is below that at 33.6%.
Its location is classified as Suburb: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics.
The number of students dropped from 345 to 319 over 4 years. The school's ratio fell from 17.3:1 to 14.0:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
Questions about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week can be posted here. Questions from prospective families are welcome 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 Bowie
- Bowie HighHigh · 2,580 students
- Benjamin Tasker MiddleMiddle · 1,058 students
- Samuel Ogle MiddleMiddle · 806 students
- Northview ElementaryElementary · 587 students
- Whitehall ElementaryElementary · 485 students
- Tulip Grove ElementaryElementary · 477 students
Other Rockledge Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Rockledge Elementary. Rockledge Elementary is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Rockledge ElementaryWoodbridge, VA · 495 students
Nearby schools
- Whitehall Elementary0.6 mi · 485
- Samuel Ogle Middle0.9 mi · 806
- High Bridge Elementary1.1 mi · 394
- Woodmore Elementary1.2 mi · 402
- Chapel Forge E C C1.3 mi · 230
- Yorktown Elementary1.4 mi · 396
Frequently asked questions
About Rockledge ElementaryHow large is Rockledge Elementary?
Rockledge Elementary enrolls approximately 319 students in grades PK-05.
Is Rockledge Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Rockledge Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Rockledge Elementary have?
Rockledge Elementary employs 23 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.0:1.
What is the student diversity at Rockledge Elementary?
Student demographics at Rockledge Elementary are roughly 14% White, 29% Hispanic, 46% Black, 5% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Rockledge Elementary public or private?
Rockledge Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Prince George's County Public Schools.
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