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Public school / Primary

Town Creek Elementary

Lexington Park, Maryland

NCES ID
240060001239
District
St. Mary'S County Public Schools
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Town Creek Elementary is a public primary school in Lexington Park, Maryland, run by St. Mary'S County Public Schools. It enrols 216 students — the 76221st largest of 1,425 public schools in Maryland.

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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

216students

76221st nationally, tied with 105

Teachers

16.0FTE

73651st nationally, tied with 1,867

Students per teacher

13.5students

32983rd nationally, tied with 970

Free or reduced-price lunch

45.4%percent

55191st nationally, tied with 66

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.

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Within St. Mary'S 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.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Leonardtown High2,039 students
  2. 2Great Mills High1,779 students
  3. 3Chopticon High1,682 students
  4. 4Spring Ridge Middle987 students
  5. 5Leonardtown Middle969 students
  6. 6Margaret Brent Middle935 students
  7. 7Esperanza Middle875 students
  8. 8Evergreen Elementary School736 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Maryland median across 1,425 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment−60.0%
  • Teachers−57.9%
  • Students per teacher−8.2%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−19.3%
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Where this sits

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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
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.