Rogers Heights Elementary

Set in Bladensburg, Maryland, Rogers Heights Elementary is an average-sized primary school, operated by Prince George's County Public Schools. It instructs 450 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Prince George's County Public Schools comprises 199 schools with combined enrollment of 132,693 students; Rogers Heights Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Rogers Heights Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (92%). The remainder consists of 5% Black, 2% White. By comparison, Prince George's County as a whole is about 23% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. About 95% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Prince George's County (around 79%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Rogers Heights Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 18.1%; this one delivers 24.0%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Prince George's County shows median household earnings sit near $101,798, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Prince George's County runs 203 public schools (combined enrollment of about 132,693 students), of which Rogers Heights Elementary is one.

Port Towns Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Rogers Heights Elementary. On composite proficiency, Rogers Heights Elementary comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 23.2%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Rogers Heights Elementary's enrollment has declined 44% since 2018, when it stood at 805 (now 450). Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 84% to 92%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 in 2025.

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