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If you could change one rule at Paint Branch Elementary, what would it be?
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Enrollment
488
Elementary
DISTRICT 457 · STATE 481
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240051001124
Paint Branch Elementary
5101 Pierce Ave, College Park, MD 20740 · (301) 513-5300 · Prince George's County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL488 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 48% of Maryland public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Maryland public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
10.3:1
48 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.3:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
91%
444 students
DISTRICT 79% · STATE 54%
Community
4
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 59 | 12% |
| Kindergarten | 53 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 69 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 71 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 83 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 67 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 86 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (53) is 38% smaller than its 5th grade class (86).
Student demographics
67%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 58% · STATE 73% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
MCAP 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 3-4)English Language Arts
37.5%
MD avg 50.6% . +10.5pp since 2023
Math
32.1%
MD avg 34.8% . +2.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 38 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 32 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Maryland schools, those numbers are about 51 and 35. Reading and writing scores are up about 11 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 37.5% | 32.1% |
| 2023-24 | 27.0% | 29.2% |
% Proficient (Levels 3-4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: MCAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
31.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
20.4%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+11.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 31% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 20% typical for Maryland schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Maryland's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Paint Branch Elementary
Paint Branch Elementary's state test result (31.4% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paint Branch Elementary this school | 488 | 91.0% | 31.4% |
| Templeton Elementary Landover | 646 | 95.2% | 17.8% |
| Gladys Noon Spellman Elementary Cheverly | 518 | 91.5% | 33.9% |
| William Paca Elementary Landover | 563 | 95.4% | 36.3% |
| Dodge Park Elementary Landover | 494 | 93.5% | 18.4% |
| Scotchtown Hills Elementary Laurel | 589 | 90.3% | 25.2% |
Matched among Maryland elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Paint Branch Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Prince George's County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 31.4% | #614 of 853 | #59 of 136 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 32.1% | #564 of 853 ▼ 10 | #41 of 136 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 37.5% | #602 of 853 ▲ 103 | #67 of 136 ▲ 26 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 488 | #404 of 898 | #51 of 145 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.3:1 | #28 of 857 | #4 of 141 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.2% | #256 of 857 | #4 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 91.0% | #74 of 885 | #61 of 144 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +31.9% | #37 of 294 | #7 of 39 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
488
+112 (+30%) vs 2020
-15% since 1990-91, when it was 575
Student : Teacher
10.3:1
was 7.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 488 | 47.5 | 10.3:1 | 91% (444) |
| 2023-24 | 481 | 35.5 | 13.6:1 | 80% (383) |
| 2022-23 | 357 | 45.5 | 7.8:1 | 80% (284) |
| 2020-21 | 376 | 50 | 7.5:1 | 73% (273) |
| 2017-18 | 370 | 47.4 | 7.8:1 | 78% (288) |
| 2015-16 | 384 | 41 | 9.4:1 | 74% (286) |
| 2010-11 | 365 | 26 | 14.0:1 | 70% (256) |
| 2000-01 | 536 | 23 | 23.3:1 | 41% (222) |
| 1990-91 | 575 | 23 | 25.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Paint Branch Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 32% (370 to 488); teachers unchanged (47.4 to 47.5).
About Paint Branch Elementary
Families in College Park, Maryland, are served by Paint Branch Elementary, a medium-sized elementary school. The school counts 488 students across pre-K through 5.
The Prince George's County Public Schools system has 199 schools and 132,693 students.
Paint Branch Elementary has no majority group; Hispanic students are the largest, at 49%. Beyond that, enrollment is 23% Asian, 16% Black, and 10% White. In Prince George's County overall, about 23% of residents are Hispanic. Pick two students at random and there is a 67% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
A ratio of 10.3:1 comes from the school's 47.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. The school has fewer students per teacher than the 13.8:1 average for elementary schools in Maryland. The lunch program counts 91% of students at Paint Branch Elementary as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. It compares with 79% for public schools in Prince George's County.
allk12 grades Paint Branch Elementary a B-. The grade compares the school only with Maryland public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, Paint Branch Elementary would be expected to post about 20.4%. Its actual average proficiency rate on state tests is 31.4%.
Among Prince George's County residents, the median household income is $101,798, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 37%, and about 7% of people live in poverty. Besides Paint Branch Elementary, Prince George's County has 202 other public schools.
The school nearest to Paint Branch Elementary is Berwyn Heights Elementary, at a distance of about 1.0 miles. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. On state test proficiency, Paint Branch Elementary ranks 5th in a group of 9 nearby schools.
The NCES locale for Paint Branch Elementary is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal data show a 30% enrollment increase, from 376 in 2020-21 to 488 in 2024-25. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio rose from 7.5:1 to 10.3:1.
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Prince George's County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
959,754
Census ACS
Median income
$101,798
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
37%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
203
132,693 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Prince George's County Public Schools
- High Point HighHigh · 3,012 students
- Charles Herbert Flowers HighHigh · 2,712 students
- Parkdale HighHigh · 2,588 students
- Bowie HighHigh · 2,580 students
- Eleanor Roosevelt HighHigh · 2,544 students
- Duval HighHigh · 2,522 students
Nearby schools
- Berwyn Heights Elementary1.0 mi · 421
- College Park Academy1.3 mi · 682
- University Park Elementary1.5 mi · 538
- Dora Kennedy French Immersion1.5 mi · 684
- Greenbelt Middle1.5 mi · 1,270
- William Wirt Middle1.6 mi · 1,124
Frequently asked questions
About Paint Branch ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Paint Branch Elementary?
Paint Branch Elementary enrolls approximately 488 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Paint Branch Elementary serve?
Paint Branch Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Paint Branch Elementary?
Approximately 10.3:1 students per teacher at Paint Branch Elementary.
How diverse is Paint Branch Elementary?
Paint Branch Elementary reports a student body of 10% White, 49% Hispanic, 16% Black, 23% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Paint Branch Elementary?
Paint Branch Elementary is overseen by Prince George's County Public Schools in Prince George's County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.