Elementary · Regular · Grades 3 to 5
Piney Branch Elementary, Takoma Park, MD
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 575
- Teachers (FTE)
- 34.0
- Students per teacher
- 16.9
- Grades
- 3 to 5
This school's ratio is 3.1 higher than the district figure of 13.8. The Maryland average across schools is 14.6. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
School details
- Address
- 7510 Maple Ave, Takoma Park, MD 20912
- Phone
- (240)740-7780
- District
- Montgomery County Public Schools
- County
- Montgomery County
- Level
- Elementary
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Locale
- Suburb: Large
- NCES school ID
- 240048000894
School meals
- Free lunch
- 178
- Reduced-price lunch
- 22
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 20034.8% of enrollment.
- Direct certification
- 162Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
- Community Eligibility Provision
- No
Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.
Related schools
Other elementary schools in Montgomery County Public Schools
- Ashburton Elementary 871 students
- Farmland Elementary 847 students
- Bayard Rustin Elementary 757 students
- JoAnn Leleck at Broad Acres Elementary 756 students
- Arcola Elementary 747 students
- Burnt Mills Elementary 747 students
- South Lake Elementary 746 students
- Waters Landing Elementary 735 students
- Watkins Mill Elementary 734 students
- Garrett Park Elementary 724 students
- Greencastle Elementary 722 students
- Whetstone Elementary 711 students
Elementary schools elsewhere in Takoma Park
- Carole Highlands Elementary Prince George's County Public Schools
We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.