Enrollment
220
Elementary
DISTRICT 419 · STATE 481
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ST. MARY'S COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240060001239
Town Creek Elementary
45805 Dent Dr, Lexington Park, MD 20653 · (301) 863-4044 · St. Mary's County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY23-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL220 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 48% of Maryland public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-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
13.5:1
16 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.7:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
56%
124 students
DISTRICT 43% · 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 | 20 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 28 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 34 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 27 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 45 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 34 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 32 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (28) is 13% smaller than its 5th grade class (32).
Student demographics
66%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 60% · 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
52.2%
MD avg 50.6% . +12.8pp since 2023
Math
43.3%
MD avg 34.8% . +1.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 43 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 13 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 52.2% | 43.3% |
| 2023-24 | 39.4% | 41.7% |
% 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
44.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.9%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 44% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 41% 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 Town Creek Elementary
Town Creek Elementary's state test result (44.1% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Town Creek Elementary this school | 220 | 56.4% | 44.1% |
| Westside Primary Quantico | 201 | 61.2% | N/A |
| Mt Hope/Nanjemoy Elementary School Nanjemoy | 269 | 56.1% | 43.4% |
| White Marsh Elementary Trappe | 289 | 57.1% | 55.5% |
| Vienna Elementary School Vienna | 183 | 56.3% | 64.4% |
| Overlook Elementary Linthicum | 249 | 61.8% | 30.5% |
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 Town Creek Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In St. Mary's County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 44.1% | #427 of 853 | #16 of 19 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 43.3% | #388 of 853 ▼ 2 | #13 of 19 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 52.2% | #392 of 853 ▲ 126 | #13 of 19 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 220 | #840 of 898 | #17 of 19 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.5:1 | #367 of 857 | #5 of 19 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.7% | #288 of 857 | #6 of 19 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 56.4% | #466 of 885 | #6 of 19 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +4.3% | #213 of 294 | N/A |
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
220
+20 (+10%) vs 2020
-30% since 1990-91, when it was 315
Student : Teacher
13.5:1
was 13.3:1
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 | 220 | 16.3 | 13.5:1 | 56% (124) |
| 2023-24 | 223 | 16.3 | 13.7:1 | 52% (115) |
| 2022-23 | 216 | 16.3 | 13.3:1 | 45% (98) |
| 2020-21 | 200 | 15 | 13.3:1 | 46% (92) |
| 2017-18 | 211 | 15.4 | 13.7:1 | 38% (80) |
| 2015-16 | 230 | 15 | 15.3:1 | 35% (81) |
| 2010-11 | 225 | 15 | 15.0:1 | 31% (69) |
| 2000-01 | 271 | 15 | 18.1:1 | 16% (43) |
| 1990-91 | 315 | 15 | 21.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Town Creek Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 4% (211 to 220); teachers up 6% (15.4 to 16.3).
About Town Creek Elementary
Located in Lexington Park, Maryland, Town Creek Elementary is a small elementary school. The school's enrollment of 220 students covers pre-K through 5. Enrollment is 54% lower than the average for elementary schools in Maryland, which is about 481.
A total of 26 schools make up St. Mary's County Public Schools, with 16,905 students enrolled.
White students are the majority at Town Creek Elementary, with 52% of enrollment. The school is also 19% Black, 15% Hispanic, and 13% multiracial. The White share of the county population is higher, at 71%. Town Creek Elementary's diversity index is 66%, against a US figure of 70%.
Staffing totals 16.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 13.5:1. For comparison, elementary schools in Maryland average 13.8:1. A measure often used for student poverty, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, stands at 56%. The average for public schools in St. Mary's County is 41%.
allk12 grades Town Creek Elementary a B-. The grade compares the school only with Maryland public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Town Creek Elementary falls in the middle 80% of Maryland schools: 44.1% actual against 40.9% predicted.
In St. Mary's County (population about 115,126), the median household income is $119,446, about 37% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. Town Creek Elementary is one of 28 public schools in the county.
Esperanza Middle is the closest public school, about 0.7 miles away in a straight line. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. The nearest schools with test data average 44.8%, higher than Town Creek Elementary's 44.1%.
Town Creek Elementary has an NCES locale of Suburb: Small.
Compared with 2020-21, the school had 20 more students in 2024-25.
The Town Creek Elementary community page is open for posts about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
St. Mary's County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
115,126
Census ACS
Median income
$119,446
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
37%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
28
16,905 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in St. Mary's County Public Schools
- Leonardtown HighHigh · 2,118 students
- Great Mills HighHigh · 1,697 students
- Chopticon HighHigh · 1,526 students
- Leonardtown MiddleMiddle · 969 students
- Spring Ridge MiddleMiddle · 913 students
- Margaret Brent MiddleMiddle · 878 students
Other schools in Lexington Park
- Spring Ridge MiddleMiddle · 913 students
- Esperanza MiddleMiddle · 835 students
- Chesapeake Charter SchoolElementary · 539 students
- Green Holly Elementary SchoolElementary · 478 students
- Lexington Park ElementaryElementary · 383 students
- St. Mary's County Evening HighCombined
Other Town Creek Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Town Creek Elementary. Town Creek Elementary is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Town Creek ElementaryWinnabow, NC · 702 students
Nearby schools
- Esperanza Middle0.7 mi · 835
- Green Holly Elementary School0.7 mi · 478
- Greenview Knolls Elementary1.6 mi · 294
- Lexington Park Elementary3.5 mi · 383
- Hollywood Elementary3.7 mi · 414
- George Washington Carver Elementary3.7 mi · 460
Frequently asked questions
About Town Creek ElementaryHow many students attend Town Creek Elementary?
Town Creek Elementary enrolls approximately 220 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Town Creek Elementary serve?
Town Creek Elementary serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Town Creek Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Town Creek Elementary is approximately 13.5:1 (16 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Town Creek Elementary?
At Town Creek Elementary, the student body is approximately 52% White, 15% Hispanic, 19% Black, 2% Asian, 13% Two or more.
Is Town Creek Elementary public or private?
Town Creek Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by St. Mary's County Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.