2024-2025 Pupil Yield Factors & Public School Clusters
Abstract
Date March 2025
Title 2024-2025 Update of the Pupil Yield Factors and Public School Clusters
Author The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission
Subject 2024-2025 Update of the Pupil Yield Factors and Public School Clusters for the Prince George’s County Planning Department
Source of copies The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission 1616 McCormick Drive Largo, MD 20774
Series number 993252702
Number of pages 50
This Report updates the pupil yield factors that are used in the regulatory review of preliminary subdivision plans. These factors are applied to analyze a proposed development’s impact on the public school districts where it may be located.
The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission
Artie L. Harris, Jr., Chair
Peter A. Shapiro, Vice Chair
Officers
Bill Spencer, Acting Executive Director Gavin Cohen, Secretary-Treasurer
Debra Borden, General Counsel
The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission (M-NCPPC) is a bicounty agency, created by the General Assembly of Maryland in 1927. The Commission’s geographic authority extends to the great majority of Montgomery and Prince George’s Counties: the Maryland-Washington Regional District (M-NCPPC planning jurisdiction) comprises 1,001 square miles, while the Metropolitan District (parks) comprises 919 square miles, in the two counties. The Commission has three major functions:
• The preparation, adoption, and, from time to time, amendment or extension of the General Plan for the physical development of the Maryland-Washington Regional District.
• The acquisition, development, operation, and maintenance of a public park system.
• In Prince George’s County only, the operation of the entire county public recreation program. The Commission operates in each county through a Planning Board appointed by and responsible to the County government. All local plans, recommendations on zoning amendments, administration of subdivision regulations, and general administration of parks are responsibilities of the Planning Boards.
The Prince George’s County Planning Department:
• Our mission is to help preserve, protect, and manage the County’s resources by providing the highest quality planning services and growth management guidance, and by facilitating effective intergovernmental and citizen involvement through education and technical assistance.
• Our vision is to be a model planning department of responsive and respected staff who provide superior planning and technical services and work cooperatively with decision makers, citizens, and other agencies to continuously improve development quality and the environment and act as a catalyst for positive change.
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY PLANNING BOARD
MONTGOMERY COUNTY PLANNING BOARD
Peter A. Shapiro, Chair
Dorothy F. Bailey, Vice Chair
Manuel R. Geraldo, Esq. A. Shuanise Washington
Artie L. Harris, Jr., Chair
Mitra Pedoeem, Vice Chair
Shawn Bartley
James Hedrick
Josh Linden
Prince George’s County
County
Tara H. Jackson, Acting County Executive
Council
The County Council has three main responsibilities in the planning process: setting policy, plan approval, and plan implementation. Applicable policies are incorporated into area plans, functional plans, and the general plan. The Council, after holding a hearing on the plan adopted by the Planning Board, may approve the plan as adopted, approve the plan with amendments based on the public record, or disapprove the plan and return it to the Planning Board for revision. Implementation is primarily through adoption of the annual Capital Improvement Program, the annual Budget, the water and sewer plan, and adoption of zoning map amendments.
COUNCIL MEMBERS
Jolene Ivey, Chair, At-large
Edward P. Burroughs III, Vice Chair, 8th District
Calvin S. Hawkins, II, At-large
Thomas E. Dernoga, 1st District
Wanika B. Fisher, 2nd District
Eric C. Olson, 3rd District
Ingrid S. Watson, 4th District
Wala Blegay, 6th District
Krystal Oriadha, 7th District
Sydney J. Harrison, 9th District
Clerk of the Council: Donna J. Brown
Introduction
The Pupil Yield Factors and Public School Clusters Report updates the 2024-2025 pupil yield factors for Prince George’s County Planning Department to use for assessing the impact of new development on County public schools, as required by the County’s Subdivision Regulations.
Each year, the Prince George’s County Public School System (PGCPS) provides the official enrollment (the full-time equivalent) and the state-rated capacity in each County public school on September 30 of a given school year. The state-rated capacity is determined yearly by the Maryland Interagency Commission (IAC).
The school enrollment data for the past five school years are tabulated in Table 1.
The full-time equivalent enrollment, state-rated capacity, and utilization rate (the percent enrollment divided by state rated capacity) for the 2024-2025 school year are presented in accompanying tables and maps for individual elementary, middle, and high schools within their respective clusters.
Table 1. Student Enrollment, 2020 to 2024 Year
September 30, 2020
September 30, 2021
September 30, 2022
September 30, 2023
September 30, 2024
*: Adjusted for Half-Day Pre-Kindergarten. The total enrollment includes charter schools, combination schools, or centers. A combination school is for language immersion or students of color from low-income communities.
SOURCE: Prince George’s County Public Schools.
Pupil Yield Factor
“The estimated number of elementary, middle, and high school students per dwelling unit, as determined by the Planning Director, from information provided by the Superintendent of the Prince George’s County Public Schools.”
— Definition in Prince George’s County, Subdivision Regulations, Section 24-2300
Pupil Yield
In Prince George’s County, the Planning Department’s pupil yield computation is a crucial step in the subdivision review process; it calculates the potential number of PGCPS pupils generated by a proposed subdivision plan. As part of reviewing a proposed subdivision plan, Planning Department staff multiply the pupil yield factor by the number of housing units by type. This calculation determines the projected number of elementary, middle, and high school students that would be generated by a proposed preliminary subdivision plan within its respective school districts.
The Planning Department’s pupil yield factors are used for development review purposes rather than for the County’s public school enrollment projections. PGCPS updates enrollment projections yearly and includes them in its Annual Educational Facilities Master Plan, as required by the Maryland Department of Planning.
Methodology for Pupil Yield Calculation
Every year, PGCPS geocodes student addresses for elementary, middle, and high schools. The Planning Department derives the pupil yield factors by joining geocoded student addresses and existing dwelling units by housing type with the Department’s PropertyInfo database in ArcGIS. PropertyInfo is based on the Maryland State Department of
SOURCE: Prince George’s County Planning Department
Assessments and Taxation (SDAT) data that contains property boundaries, and uses, and ownership information.
By spatially joining geocoded student addresses to PropertyInfo, Planning Department staff account for housing units that may have more than one students who attend the same school or at the different school levels. The total number of housing units is then aggregated by housing type. The housing types include single-family detached, single-family attached (including townhouses), and multifamily.
Based on the geocoded student addresses from the September 30, 2024, enrollment data, the Planning Department staff calculated the 2024-2025 pupil yield factors, as presented in Table 2.
SOURCE: Prince George’s County Planning Department
Table 2. Prince George’s County 2024 Pupil Yield Factors
A factor is determined based on housing type and school type.
Sum of student addresses by school type by housing type
Total housing units by housing type
Student Generation Rate
Table 3 illustrates a hypothetical pupil yield calculated for the number of students generated from a proposed 100-dwelling-unit subdivision. The formula is expressed as:
Number of dwelling units
Pupil Yield Factor by school type by housing type
Public School Clusters
Legislative Background
On October 23, 2018, the Prince George’s County Council adopted CR-015-2018 (DR-3), and amendments were adopted in CR-088-2021. The new Subdivision Regulations, effective April 1, 2022, aim to streamline procedures and encourage appropriate input into the subdivision review process. Under the regulations, the Director of the Prince George’s County Planning Department is responsible for evaluating school capacity at the time when a preliminary subdivision plan is proposed.
The Subdivision Regulations set out the requirements for determining to utilize the school clusters to gauge the impact of a proposed preliminary subdivision on its respective public schools. The level of service standard of Section 24-4510(b)(2) states that “The number of students generated by the proposed subdivision at each stage of development will not exceed 105 percent of the state-rated capacity, as adjusted by the School Regulations, of the affected elementary, middle, and high school clusters.” The utilization rate for a school year is expressed as the percentage of adjusted full-time enrollment (or fulltime equivalent) divided by the state-rated capacity.
Methodology for Cluster Updates
The school clusters are based on the PGCPS feeder system for the current school year. The feeder system is a matrix developed by the PGCPS staff. It is intended to provide students and parents with the flow of schools that a student will attend as they move from one type to the next. This will allow groups of students to stay together as they move from elementary to middle and from middle to high school.
It is important to note that students from the same elementary school may transition to different middle schools. Similarly, students from the same middle school may move on to different high schools. This is common in Prince George’s County and other Maryland counties.
To update the public school clusters, the Planning Department staff used PGCPS School Year 2024-2025 feeder patterns, including six high school groupings and their associated feeder middle and elementary schools (Map 1).
Enrollment and Capacity
This section displays the September 30, 2024, enrollment, state-rated capacity, and utilization rate by school in each cluster.
• Feeder Pattern Tables showing feeder patterns for elementary, middle, and high schools within each of the six clusters (Tables 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, and 24);
• Elementary School Enrollment Tables presenting enrollment, state rated capacity, and utilization rate for elementary schools for each cluster (Tables 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, and 25);
• Middle School Enrollment Tables revealing enrollment, state rated capacity, and utilization rate for middle schools for each cluster (Tables 6, 10, 14, 18, 22, and 26); and
• High School Enrollment Tables reflecting enrollment, state rated capacity, and utilization rate for high schools for each cluster (Tables 7, 11, 15, 19, 23, and 27).
Not all County public schools are included in these tables. Schools that focus on gifted and talented instruction, language immersion, art, as well as regional schools without neighborhood attendance boundaries, are neither included in the calculation of cluster area utilization nor the PGCPS feeder system. These schools generally draw their enrollment from a wide geographic area.
In addition, there still is no state-rated capacity for Adelphi, Templeton, or Woodmore Elementary Schools for the 2024-2025 school year. The 2023-2024 Pupil Yield Factors and Public School Clusters Report provides detailed information on those three schools.1
Furthermore, Concord Elementary School and Rose Valley Elementary School closed after the 2023-24 school year and are no longer instructional facilities. Crossland High School is now the Career and Technical Education (CTE) Hub for the south County and no longer serves as a comprehensive high school. “Students will still have the option to attend Crossland, but must apply to a Career and Technical program.”2
1 2023-2024 Pupil Yield Factors and Public School Clusters Report, p. 13, https://pgplanning.org/resource_library/33289/
2 Richard D. Elliott, New School Boundary Proposal converts Crossland to Career and Technical Hub, The Washington Informer, October 18, 2023, https://bit.ly/3XsKwYX
1. Prince George’s County Public School Cluster Areas
*Building Utilization is the percentage of the Adjusted Enrollment to the State-Rated Capacity ** See the report about Woodmore Elementary ***Pre-K or K through 8th
Source: Prince George’s County Public Schools
2 CLUSTER AREA
Glenridge Elementary School has a 87 3% building utilization rate for school year 2024-2025
Table 10. Cluster Area 2 Middle Schools
Table 11. Cluster Area 2 High Schools
Source: Prince George’s County Schools
* Building Utilization is the percentage of the Adjusted Enrollment to the State-Rated Capacity
Source: Prince George’s County Schools
Table 12. Cluster Area 3 Schools Feeder Pattern
High School Middle School Elementary Schools
Central High
G James Gholson Middle
Walker Mill Middle
William W Hall Academy*
Fairmont Heights High
G James Gholson Middle
Kenmoor Middle
Walker Mill Middle
Columbia Park Elementary Highland Park Elementary
Cora L Rice Elementary Robert R Gray Elementary
Capitol Heights Elementary John H Bayne Elementary
Carmody Hills Elementary North Forestville Elementary
Doswell E Brooks Elementary Seat Pleasant Elementary
William W Hall Academy*
Columbia Park Elementary Gladys Noon Spellman Elementary
Cora L Rice Elementary Highland Park Elementary
Dodge Park Elementary
Dodge Park Elementary
Judge Sylvania W Woods, Sr. Elem
Capitol Heights Elementary
William Paca Elementary
John H Bayne Elementary
Carmody Hills Elementary North Forestville Elementary
Doswell E Brooks Elementary Seat Pleasant Elementary Suitland High
Andrew Jackson Academy*
Drew-Freeman Middle
Samuel P Massie Academy*
Walker Mill Middle
William W Hall Academy*
* Pre-K or K-8
Source: Prince George’s County Public Schools.
Andrew Jackson Academy*
Bradbury Heights Elementary Longfields Elementary
District Heights Elementary Suitland Elementary
Francis Scott Key Elementary William Beanes Elementary
Samuel P Massie Academy*
Capitol Heights Elementary John H Bayne Elementary
Carmody Hills Elementary North Forestville Elementary
Doswell E Brooks Elementary Seat Pleasant Elementary
William W Hall Academy*
3 CLUSTER AREA
Table 13. Cluster Area 3 Elementary Schools
Table 14. Cluster Area 3 Middle Schools
Middle Schools
* Building Utilization is the percentage of the Adjusted Enrollment to
Source: Prince George’s County Schools
Table 15. Cluster Area 3 High Schools
High Schools
*Building Utilization is the percentage of the Adjusted Enrollment to the State-Rated Capacity ** See the
Source: Prince George’s County Public Schools
* Building Utilization is the percentage of the Adjusted Enrollment to the State-Rated Capacity
Source: Prince George’s County Schools
Table 16. Cluster Area 4 Schools Feeder Pattern
High School Middle School Elementary Schools
Bowie High
Benjamin Tasker Middle
Samuel Ogle Middle
Charles Herbert Flowers High
Ernest Everett Just Middle
G James Gholson Middle
Kenmoor Middle
Dr Henry A Wise, Jr. High
Andrew Jackson Academy*
Drew-Freeman Middle
Gwynn Park Middle
James Madison Middle
Kettering Middle
Stephen Decatur Middle
Walker Mill Middle
Largo High
Ernest Everett Just Middle
Kettering Middle
Walker Mill Middle
Kenilworth Elementary
Northview Elementary
Pointer Ridge Elementary
High Bridge Elementary
Rockledge Elementary
Ardmore Elementary
Kingsford Elementary
Columbia Park Elementary
Cora L Rice Elementary
Dodge Park Elementary
Judge Sylvania W Woods, Sr. Elementary
Andrew Jackson Academy *
Bradbury Heights Elementary
District Heights Elementary
Francis Scott Key Elementary
Baden Elementary
Brandywine Elementary
Marlton Elementary
Barack Obama Elementary
Melwood Elementary
Arrowhead Elementary
Kettering Elementary
Clinton Grove Elementary
Francis T Evans Elementary
Capitol Heights Elementary
Carmody Hills Elementary
Doswell E Brooks Elementary
Ardmore Elementary
Kingsford Elementary
Arrowhead Elementary
Kettering Elementary
Capitol Heights Elementary
Carmody Hills Elementary
Doswell E Brooks Elementary
* Pre-K or K-8. Source: Prince George’s County Public Schools.
Tulip Grove Elementary
Woodmore Elementary
Whitehall Elementary
Yorktown Elementary
Lake Arbor Elementary
Woodmore Elementary
Highland Park Elementary
Robert R Gray Elementary
William Paca Elementary
Longfields Elementary
Suitland Elementary
William Beanes Elementary
Mattaponi Elementary
Rosaryville Elementary
Patuxent Elementary
Rosaryville Elementary
Perrywood Elementary
James Ryder Randall Elementary
Waldon Woods Elementary
John H Bayne Elementary
North Forestville Elementary
Seat Pleasant Elementary
Lake Arbor Elementary
Woodmore Elementary
Perrywood Elementary
John H Bayne Elementary
North Forestville Elementary
Seat Pleasant Elementary
4 CLUSTER AREA
Table 17. Cluster Area 4 Elementary Schools
Elementary Schools
*Building Utilization is the percentage of the Adjusted Enrollment to the State Rated Capacity **Pre-K or K-8
*** See the report about Woodmore Elementary
Source: Prince George’s County Public Schools
Table 18. Cluster Area 4 Middle Schools
Table 19.
Cluster Area 4 High Schools
* Building Utilization is the percentage of the Adjusted Enrollment to the State-Rated Capacity Source: Prince George’s County Schools
* Building Utilization is the percentage of the Adjusted Enrollment to the State-Rated Capacity
Source: Prince George’s County Schools
Table 20. Cluster Area 5 Schools Feeder Pattern
High School Middle School Elementary Schools
Oxon Hill High
Colin L Powell Academy*
Oxon Hill Middle
Potomac High
Benjamin Stoddert Middle
Oxon Hill Middle
Thurgood Marshall Middle
* Pre-K or K-8
Source: Prince George’s County Public Schools.
Apple Grove Elementary
Colin L Powell Academy*
Fort Washington Forest Elementary
Flintstone Elementary
Forest Heights Elementary
Fort Foote Elementary
Barnaby Manor Elementary
Hillcrest Heights Elementary
Flintstone Elementary
Oxon Hill Elementary
Tayac Elementary
Glassmanor Elementary
Indian Queen Elementary
Valley View Elementary
Panorama Elementary
Glassmanor Elementary
Forest Heights Elementary Indian Queen Elementary
Fort Foote Elementary
Allenwood Elementary
Avalon Elementary
Valley View Elementary
Princeton Elementary
Samuel Chase Elementary
Hillcrest Heights Elementary Valley View Elementary
J Frank Dent Elementary
CLUSTER AREA
Table 21. Cluster Area 5 Elementary Schools
Table 22. Cluster Area 5 Middle Schools Middle Schools
* Building Utilization is the percentage of the Adjusted Enrollment to the State-Rated Capacity
Source: Prince George’s County Schools
Table
23. Cluster Area 5 High Schools
Schools
* Building Utilization is the percentage of the Adjusted Enrollment to the State-Rated Capacity
Source: Prince George’s County Schools
*Building Utilization is the percentage of the Adjusted Enrollment to the State-Rated Capacity ** See the report about Woodmore Elementary Source: Prince George’s County Public Schools
Table 24. Cluster Area 5 Schools Feeder Pattern
High School Middle School Elementary Schools
Frederick Douglass High
Gwynn Park Middle
James Madison Middle
Friendly High
Gwynn Park High
Surrattsville High
Colin L Powell Academy*
Accokeek Academy*
Colin L Powell Academy*
Gwynn Park Middle
Stephen Decatur Middle
Stephen Decatur Middle
Thurgood Marshall Middle
*: Pre-K or K-8
Source: Prince George’s County Public Schools
Baden Elementary
Brandywine Elementary
Marlton Elementary
Barack Obama Elementary
Melwood Elementary
Apple Grove Elementary
Mattaponi Elementary
Rosaryville Elementary
Patuxent Elementary
Rosaryville Elementary
Oxon Hill Elementary
Colin L Powell Academy* Tayac Elementary
Fort Washington Forest Elementary
Accokeek Academy*
Apple Grove Elementary
Oxon Hill Elementary
Colin L Powell Academy* Tayac Elementary
Fort Washington Forest Elementary
Baden Elementary
Brandywine Elementary
Marlton Elementary
Clinton Grove Elementary
Francis T Evans Elementary
Clinton Grove Elementary
Francis T Evans Elementary
Allenwood Elementary
Avalon Elementary
Hillcrest Heights Elementary
J Frank Dent Elementary
Mattaponi Elementary
Rosaryville Elementary
James Ryder Randall Elementary
Waldon Woods Elementary
James Ryder Randall Elementary
Waldon Woods Elementary
Princeton Elementary
Samuel Chase Elementary
Valley View Elementary
6 CLUSTER AREA
Table 25. Cluster Area 6 Elementary Schools
Table 26. Cluster Area 6 Middle Schools Middle Schools
* Building Utilization is the percentage of the Adjusted Enrollment to the State-Rated Capacity Source: Prince George’s County Schools
Table 27. Cluster Area 6 High Schools
High Schools
* Building Utilization is the percentage of the Adjusted Enrollment to the State-Rated Capacity
Source: Prince George’s County Schools
*Building Utilization is the percentage of the
School Overcrowding Conditions
Maps 2, 3, and 4 illustrate the school utilization rates of individual school districts by school type. These maps provide valuable insights and highlight policy implications regarding overcrowding conditions within Prince George’s County.
Overall, schools in the northern part of the County, regardless of type, are at or above 105 percent of the state-rated capacity (or utilization rate). The utilization rate is also high for elementary and middle schools in the southern part of the County. The Planning Department and PGCPS work together to
alleviate overcrowding conditions through capital improvement programs, such as building new schools or providing additional seats.
An academy includes pre-K or K through the 8th grade. Therefore, an academy may appear on both elementary and middle school maps displaying a school’s utilization rate. Detailed data for the elementary school map are included in Appendix B due to the size of the school district and the number of elementary schools in the County.
Map 2 - The Utilization Rate, 2024-2025 School Year, Elementary Schools, Prince George’s County
Calvert
3. School utilization rates
Map 4. School utilization rates
George’s County Planning Department
Appendix
September 30,
Acknowledgments
Lakisha Hull, AICP, LEED AP BD+C Planning Director
James Hunt Deputy Director of Operations
Tony Felts, AICP Deputy Director of Administration
James Cannistra, C.P., GISP Division Chief, Information Management
Project Team Core Members
Kui Zhao, AICP Planning Supervisor
William Lescure, GISP Senior GIS Specialist
Technical and Administrative Assistance
Dan Hartmann Administrative Manager
Carly Brockinton Public Affairs and Marketing Specialist II
