Templeton Elementary

Templeton Elementary, a reasonably sized elementary school in Landover, Maryland, run under Prince George's County Public Schools, educates 646 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 34% bigger than the typical public school in Maryland, which averages around 481 students.

Prince George's County Public Schools comprises 199 schools with combined enrollment of 132,693 students; Templeton Elementary is among them.

Demographically, Templeton Elementary records that the largest single group is Hispanic at 55%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 26% Asian, 13% Black, 4% White. By comparison, Prince George's County as a whole is about 23% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Templeton Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 95% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Prince George's County runs at roughly 79%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Templeton Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 17.9%, the actual is 17.8%, a residual of -0.1 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Prince George's County put median household earnings sit near $101,798, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Prince George's County's 203 public schools (combined enrollment of about 132,693 students), Templeton Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Kenmoor Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Templeton Elementary comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 36.8%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Templeton Elementary's enrollment has contracted 27% since 2018, when it stood at 889 (now 646). Asian enrollment moved from 15% to 26% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 in 2025.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.