Public school / Primary
J. C. Parks Elementary School
Indian Head, Maryland
- NCES ID
- 240027000592
- District
- Charles County Public Schools
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
J. C. Parks Elementary School is a public primary school in Indian Head, Maryland, run by Charles County Public Schools. It enrols 638 students — the 23549th largest of 1,425 public schools in Maryland.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
638
Teachers
37.0
Students per teacher
17.2
Free or reduced-price lunch
55.6%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Charles County Public Schools
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1North Point High School1,867 students
- 2St. Charles High School1,569 students
- 3Westlake High School1,229 students
- 4La Plata High School1,222 students
- 5Thomas Stone High School1,177 students
- 6Maurice J. Mcdonough High School1,087 students
- 7Theodore G. Davis Middle School1,043 students
- 8Henry E. Lackey High School1,042 students
- Enrollment+18.0%
- Teachers−2.6%
- Students per teacher+17.0%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−1.2%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory