NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools MD

Best-Resourced Schools in Lexington Park, MD

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6 public K-12 schools in Lexington Park from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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6
Schools
3,368
Students
42.5/100
Avg Resource Index
14.1:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Lexington Park has more public-school enrollment than 34% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Lexington Park's 6 listed schools all sit inside one district, creating a compact governance structure with one budget, board, and reporting chain. That makes citywide comparisons cleaner than in places split across several districts, but it does not make the campuses interchangeable: elementary, middle, and high-school staffing needs differ. The ranked list is best read as variation inside one system rather than competition among separate local authorities.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

3 of Lexington Park's 6 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 18-point gap between Town Creek Elementary and Lexington Park Elementary shows the range hidden by Lexington Park's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment
Top 66%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
58th percentile
Teacher staffing
66th percentile

Spring Ridge Middle accounts for 27.1% of all Lexington Park public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Lexington Park-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: Middle. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Lexington Park school enrollment varies 4.2× across entities

Lexington Park school enrollment ranges from 220 students (lowest) to 913 students (highest), a spread of 693 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Lexington Park operates one school district — a single-district system

Lexington Park's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Lexington Park student-teacher ratio is 14.1:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Variation between sub-units within Lexington Park is typically wider than the Lexington Park-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

1 of Lexington Park's 6 listed schools are charters

17% of the city's listed public-school campuses are reported as charter schools in NCES CCD. Charter status identifies a different governance arrangement; it does not establish admissions availability, academic quality, or the share of city students enrolled in those campuses. Open each school record to compare enrollment and staffing directly.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

# School Score
1. Town Creek Elementary 54
2. Esperanza Middle 46
3. Green Holly Elementary School 42
4. Chesapeake Charter School 40
5. Spring Ridge Middle 37
6. Lexington Park Elementary 36

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Lexington Park

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Green Holly Elementary School 72.9/100
  2. 2 Spring Ridge Middle 72.6/100
  3. 3 Esperanza Middle 67.0/100
  4. 4 Lexington Park Elementary 65.8/100
  5. 5 Town Creek Elementary 65.8/100

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Which Lexington Park school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Town Creek Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Lexington Park schools in this federal-data comparison at 54/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Lexington Park, MD? ▼

Lexington Park has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,368 students. 1 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 14.1:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.