Scotchtown Hills Elementary

Scotchtown Hills Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack primary school in Laurel, Maryland, overseen by Prince George's County Public Schools. The school instructs 589 students in grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 481 students per school, that is 22% larger than typical.

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

Demographically, Scotchtown Hills Elementary shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 40% Black, 4% Asian, 3% White, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.

On the resource side, Scotchtown Hills Elementary reports 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 90% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Prince George's County runs at roughly 79%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Scotchtown Hills Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 20.8%, the actual is 25.2%, a residual of +4.5 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Prince George's County put the typical household earns roughly $101,798 per year, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Prince George's County's 203 public schools (combined enrollment of about 132,693 students), Scotchtown Hills Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Bond Mill Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Scotchtown Hills Elementary ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 33.7%.

Scotchtown Hills Elementary operates from a bedroom-community location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 21%: 743 students in 2018 compared to 589 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share grew from 37% to 48%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 in 2025.

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