Columbia Park Elementary

Located at 1901 Kent Village Dr, in Landover, Maryland, Columbia Park Elementary is a medium-sized K-5 school that educates 429 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under Prince George's County Public Schools.

Columbia Park Elementary is one of 199 schools operated by Prince George's County Public Schools, a district that educates 132,693 students overall.

On demographics, Columbia Park Elementary shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 43% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.

In terms of school funding signals, Columbia Park Elementary shows 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.7:1. The state averages about 13.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 92% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Prince George's County (around 79%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Columbia Park Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 19.6%; this one delivers 23.8%.

In the area at large, census data for Prince George's County shows median household income runs about $101,798, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Columbia Park Elementary is one of 203 public schools in Prince George's County (combined enrollment of about 132,693 students).

Fairmont Heights High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Columbia Park Elementary comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 28.7%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 19%: 531 students in 2018 compared to 429 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 35% to 52% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 in 2025.

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