Suitland Elementary

Suitland Elementary is a K-5 school of middle-of-the-pack scale in Suitland, Maryland, part of Prince George's County Public Schools, teacheing 514 students in grades pre-K through 5.

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

On demographics, Suitland Elementary shows that 73% of the student body identifies as Black. The remainder breaks down as 23% Hispanic. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 59%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Suitland Elementary logs 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Suitland Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 94% of students at Suitland Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Prince George's County's rate of about 79%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Suitland Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 18.5%, the actual is 18.7%, a residual of +0.2 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%. In all, Prince George's County runs 203 public schools (combined enrollment of about 132,693 students), of which Suitland Elementary is one.

Drew-Freeman Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Suitland Elementary. On composite proficiency, Suitland Elementary comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 19.6%.

Suitland Elementary operates from a residential location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 6%: 549 students in 2018 compared to 514 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share contracted from 79% to 73%.

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