Schools in Fort Washington · Prince George's County Public Schools
Fort Washington’s public schools score below 92% of Maryland districts
The public schools Fort Washington’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 92% of Maryland’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
Maryland school districts we grade (25)Better than 8%
Lower resultsHigher results
Maryland towns with similar household incomes (170)Better than 0%
High confidence. Built on 61,077 tested students and a graduating class of 10,462; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change it.
How the School Grade works
Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Maryland’s state tests against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown but don’t count. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids through every district that serves it, weighted by students tested. Tests count 60%, graduation 40%.
Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are compared with the rest of Maryland only. A+ is the top 5%, A the next 10%, A− the next 10%, the B range the next 30%, the C range the next 30%, D the rest.
What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income, so we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
Where will my kid go?
Pick a grade. These are the public schools that serve Fort Washington.
24 schools teach 9th grade in Fort Washington’s district. Which one depends on your address: High Point High, Charles Herbert Flowers High, Parkdale High and Bowie High and more.
24 schools teach 10th grade in Fort Washington’s district. Which one depends on your address: High Point High, Charles Herbert Flowers High, Parkdale High and Bowie High and more.
24 schools teach 11th grade in Fort Washington’s district. Which one depends on your address: High Point High, Charles Herbert Flowers High, Parkdale High and Bowie High and more.
24 schools teach 12th grade in Fort Washington’s district. Which one depends on your address: High Point High, Charles Herbert Flowers High, Parkdale High and Bowie High and more.
The path, start to finish
PK–53 elementary schoolsDepends on your address
6–8Oxon Hill MiddlePrince George's County Public Schools
9–1224 high schoolsDepends on your address
The district
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
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Within reach
Colleges near Fort Washington
There’s no college in Fort Washington, but 40 are within 30 miles. The closest is Washington University of Science and Technology in Alexandria, 6.3 miles away.
College of Southern MarylandCommunity college · Public · La Plata
11.9 mi3,642 students
University of Management and TechnologyUniversity or college · For-profit · Arlington
11.9 mi4 students
Windsor UniversityUniversity or college · For-profit · Washington
11.9 mi
Straight-line distance from the center of Fort Washington. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus · College Scorecard · IPEDS. 30 more within 30 miles.
School data: U.S. Department of Education (NCES, EDFacts, F-33 school finance). The School Grade is our own summary of state test results and graduation rates, graded within Maryland. Stars are from neighbors.