Paint Branch Elementary

Paint Branch Elementary, a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in College Park, Maryland, overseen by Prince George's County Public Schools, works with 488 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

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

On the student-mix side, Paint Branch Elementary shows that 49% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 23% Asian, 16% Black, 10% White. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. An estimated 91% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Prince George's County (around 79%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Paint Branch Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 20.4%, the actual is 31.4%, a residual of +11.1 points.

In the broader community, Prince George's County reports that the typical household earns roughly $101,798 per year, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Prince George's County runs 203 public schools (combined enrollment of about 132,693 students), of which Paint Branch Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Berwyn Heights Elementary, around 1.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Paint Branch Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Paint Branch Elementary at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 34.4%.

Paint Branch Elementary operates from a bedroom-community location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Paint Branch Elementary has increased 32%, going from 370 students in 2018 to 488 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment declined from 33% to 16% over that span. Class-load math has loosened: from 7.8:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 in 2025.

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