Port Towns Elementary

Located at 4351 58th Ave, in Bladensburg, Maryland, Port Towns Elementary is a sprawling elementary-level community that caters to 747 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under Prince George's County Public Schools. By comparison, Maryland's public schools average about 481 students each, so Port Towns Elementary sits 55% bigger than that benchmark.

Port Towns Elementary is one of 199 schools operated by Prince George's County Public Schools, a district that works with 132,693 students overall.

On demographics, Port Towns Elementary lists that 71% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest looks like 25% Black, 2% White. The wider county runs roughly 23% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Port Towns Elementary has 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 93% of enrolled students meet the income threshold 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 meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Port Towns Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 19.3%; this one delivers 13.8%.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Prince George's County put the typical household earns roughly $101,798 per year, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Port Towns Elementary is one of 203 public schools in Prince George's County (combined enrollment of about 132,693 students).

The closest other public school is Rogers Heights Elementary, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Port Towns Elementary ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 25.3%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Port Towns Elementary has contracted 35%, going from 1,150 students in 2018 to 747 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share declined from 31% to 25%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.