Springhill Lake Elementary

Springhill Lake Elementary, a heavily attended primary school in Greenbelt, Maryland, operated by Prince George's County Public Schools, educates 804 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 67% above the typical public school in Maryland, which averages around 481 students.

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

On demographics, Springhill Lake Elementary logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (55%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 40% Black, 3% White. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.

On the resource side, The school employs 63 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.8:1. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 93% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Prince George's County (around 79%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Springhill Lake Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 19.5%, the actual is 19.2%, a residual of -0.2 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Prince George's County indicate the typical household earns roughly $101,798 per year, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Springhill Lake Elementary is one of 203 public schools in Prince George's County (combined enrollment of about 132,693 students).

Greenbelt Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Springhill Lake Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Springhill Lake Elementary at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 34.7%.

Springhill Lake Elementary operates from a commuter-belt location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 5%: 843 students in 2018 compared to 804 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 11.7:1 in 2018 to 12.8:1 today.

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