Maya Angelou French Immersion

Maya Angelou French Immersion is a tight-knit elementary-level community in Temple Hills, Maryland, run under Prince George's County Public Schools. The school instructs 363 students in grades K through 8. Compared to the state average of about 481 students per school, that is 25% below typical.

Maya Angelou French Immersion is one of 199 schools operated by Prince George's County Public Schools, a district that caters to 132,693 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Maya Angelou French Immersion shows that nearly all students (92%) are Black; the rest consists of 5% Hispanic. By comparison, Prince George's County as a whole is about 59% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Maya Angelou French Immersion has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. About 40% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Prince George's County (around 79%), the school's rate is south of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Maya Angelou French Immersion performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.3%, the actual is 47.7%, a residual of -2.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Prince George's County) shows that median household income runs about $101,798, roughly 37% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Maya Angelou French Immersion is one of 203 public schools in Prince George's County (combined enrollment of about 132,693 students).

Nearest neighbor: Panorama Elementary, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Maya Angelou French Immersion. On composite proficiency, Maya Angelou French Immersion comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 25.1%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 27%: 499 students in 2018 compared to 363 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 in 2025.

On this page, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.