Waldon Woods Elementary

Waldon Woods Elementary is one of the average-sized primary schools in Clinton, Maryland, part of Prince George's County Public Schools, with 523 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 199 schools in Prince George's County Public Schools (132,693 students total), Waldon Woods Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Waldon Woods Elementary lists that 68% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder reads as 25% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 59%.

On the income-and-resources front, Waldon Woods Elementary reports 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. An estimated 92% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Prince George's County's rate of about 79%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Waldon Woods Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 19.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 27.4%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Prince George's County indicate median household earnings sit near $101,798, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Prince George's County's 203 public schools (combined enrollment of about 132,693 students), Waldon Woods Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Surrattsville High, roughly 0.9 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Waldon Woods Elementary. On composite proficiency, Waldon Woods Elementary comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 28.6%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 24%: 689 students in 2018 compared to 523 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 11% to 25% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 20.1:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 today.

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