Brandywine Elementary

Brandywine Elementary is one of the mid-sized K-5 schools in Brandywine, Maryland, one of the schools within Prince George's County Public Schools, with 572 students on its rolls from grades K through 5.

Prince George's County Public Schools runs 199 schools in total, collectively educating 132,693 students. Brandywine Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Brandywine Elementary shows that Black students make up the majority at 73%. Beyond that, the school records 19% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 3% White. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 59%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 58% of students at Brandywine Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Prince George's County runs at roughly 79%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Brandywine Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 39.7%; this one delivers 27.9%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Prince George's County put median household income runs about $101,798, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Brandywine Elementary is one of 203 public schools in Prince George's County (combined enrollment of about 132,693 students).

Gwynn Park High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Brandywine Elementary. On composite proficiency, Brandywine Elementary comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 32.6%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Brandywine Elementary has expanded 38%, going from 414 students in 2018 to 572 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 11% to 19% over that span.

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