Prince George's County Public Schools
Largo, MD · 196 schools · 131,133 students
Largest Schools
Schools ranked by enrollment. Proficiency data from EDFacts where available.
Other Districts in Maryland
208 schools · 160,554 students · 52% proficiency
175 schools · 111,082 students · 49% proficiency
123 schools · 84,452 students · 52% proficiency
154 schools · 75,995 students · 41% proficiency
Frequently Asked Questions
Prince George's County Public Schools has 196 schools serving 131,133 students. The average proficiency rate across the district is 42%. The average graduation rate is 75%.
Prince George's County Public Schools operates 196 public schools, including High Point High, Charles Herbert Flowers High, Parkdale High, Eleanor Roosevelt High, Duval High and others. The full school list is shown above with enrollment and grade-level details.
The average graduation rate across high schools in Prince George's County Public Schools is approximately 75% (EDFacts district-level data, most recent reporting year). Individual school graduation rates may vary; this is a district-wide adjusted-cohort graduation rate.
The largest school in Prince George's County Public Schools is High Point High with 3,003 students.
Prince George's County Public Schools serves 131,133 students across 196 schools in MD, per the latest NCES Common Core of Data enrollment.
Prince George's County Public Schools's average proficiency rate of 42% (math and reading combined, EDFacts) is around average for US public school districts. "Good" depends on what you value — proficiency is one signal; enrollment trends, class size, graduation rates, and district resources also matter. Check individual school pages for granular data.
Student-teacher ratios are reported at the school level by NCES, not aggregated at the district level in our dataset. Open any individual school page in Prince George's County Public Schools to see its specific student-teacher ratio. The US national average is approximately 16:1 for public schools.
All data comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data (enrollment, school count, demographics) and EDFacts assessment results (proficiency rates, graduation rates). Proficiency and graduation rates are reported at the district level. Both are federal sources used by the US Department of Education.
School performance data is sourced from NCES enrollment records and EDFacts proficiency and graduation rate assessments.
The this entity record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
Every number on this page links back to NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.