Mt Rainier Elementary

Mt Rainier Elementary is one of the tight-knit K-5 schools in Mt Rainier, Maryland, part of Prince George's County Public Schools, with 311 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Maryland's public schools average about 481 students each, so Mt Rainier Elementary sits 35% below that benchmark.

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

On the student-mix side, Mt Rainier Elementary records that 61% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder consists of 24% Black, 13% White. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Mt Rainier Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 91% of students at Mt Rainier Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Prince George's County (around 79%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Mt Rainier Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 20.2%, the actual is 22.6%, a residual of +2.4 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Prince George's County put 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%. Mt Rainier Elementary is one of 203 public schools in Prince George's County (combined enrollment of about 132,693 students).

Thomas S. Stone Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 7%: 336 students in 2018 compared to 311 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share contracted from 68% to 61%.

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