Town Creek Elementary

As a low-enrollment elementary school in Lexington Park, Maryland, Town Creek Elementary works with 220 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under St. Mary's County Public Schools. By comparison, Maryland's public schools average about 481 students each, so Town Creek Elementary sits 54% below that benchmark.

St. Mary's County Public Schools comprises 26 schools with combined enrollment of 16,905 students; Town Creek Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, Town Creek Elementary logs that 52% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school reports 19% Black, 15% Hispanic, 13% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 71%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.5:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 56% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above St. Mary's County's rate of about 41%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Town Creek Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.9%, the actual is 44.1%, a residual of +3.3 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for St. Mary's County indicate the typical household earns roughly $119,446 per year, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Across St. Mary's County's 28 public schools (combined enrollment of about 16,905 students), Town Creek Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Esperanza Middle, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Town Creek Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Town Creek Elementary at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 44.8%.

Town Creek Elementary operates from a residential location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Town Creek Elementary has grew 4%, going from 211 students in 2018 to 220 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 67% to 52% over that span.

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