Paint Branch Elementary School
Grades: PK-5
Students: 357
Type: Public
GreatSchools Rating
Student-Teacher
Ratio: 7:1
Student-Counselor
Ratio: 376:1
Certified Teachers: 93%
5101 Pierce Avenue
College Park, MD 20740
College Park, MD 20740
301-513-5300
Additional GreatSchools Ratings
2/10
2/10
NA
Academic ProgressNA
College Readiness2/10
Community Reviews
I'm extremely disappointed with the bus service at Paint Branch Elementary. The timing is consistently terrible – my pre-K child's bus arrives around 5 PM, even though school ends at 3 PM. What's worse, one day the bus actually took my child back to the school, and they were there until 5:30 PM with
Posted by a parent on 8/11/2025I want to give fair warning to parents who are considering placement here for the autism program. I didn’t have a problem with the special educators themselves, but the assistants were variable in quality; some are gems, and some do not belong in a setting with vulnerable children. In retrospect, my
Posted by a parent on 2/9/2023The majority of the staff of this school are great! We are all just trying our best, but working under the principal, Dr. Hairston is one of the worst experiences I've had. Her constant patronizing and micromanaging creates a toxic work environment for the teachers which negatively impacts the stude
Posted by a teacher on 12/9/2021You would be better off homeschooling your child than sending them here. The teachers don’t care about truly helping the kids, in part because the administration doesn’t support them. The Chinese immersion program is a joke and not worth sending your child to this school.
Posted by a parent on 2/28/2020We moved to the area because PBES had a Chinese immersion, which we were looking for. However, we were disappointed so far. The teachers showed lack of experiences in teaching, lack of positive attitudes and understanding, and less positive responses to the parent's feedbacks. One time, I went to th
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NAGreatSchools RatingParent Rating AverageI am a former student from this place they call a school. My experience was mostly negative and I often felt targeted at times by teachers. I have severe ADHD and I’m mixed (half white and half Filipino), for some reason I was constantly hated by teachers who had no sense of empathy. Whenever I had a hard time on a certain topic in class or had a hard time focusing, instead of helping me, my teachers openly judged me and compared me to my peers asking “why can’t you just focus like they can?” At some point my parents had a meeting bf with my teachers to discuss certain issues and we all agreed on a plan that would allow me extra time on tests and let me turn in homework a day later but it was hardly enforced and many of my teachers chose to ignore the plans. Even when I had a valid excuse as to why I didn’t do my homework one night because my sister was hospitalized my teacher simply didn’t care and still wrote me up. They also don’t seems to care much about bullying, when I was in first or second grade these two older kids chased me around the playground calling me an alien, I went to tell the teacher 4 times but nothing was ever done. DO NOT send your kids here if they have any kind of disability whether it’s mental, physical, and/or a learning disability. I swear they will also hire teachers who hate kids, I had an English teacher in 4th grade who was insufferable, a gym teacher who actively bullied/ ridiculed kids, a 1st grade teacher who clearly would rather be out with friends partying then teaching a bunch of 1st graders, and so many teachers who were clearly underpaid and took their frustrations out on the students (not physically but definitely verbally and emotionally).Other Review1y ago
College Park schools - Paint Branch Elementary School is located at 5101 Pierce Avenue, College Park MD 20740. Paint Branch Elementary School is in the Prince George's County Public Schools. Paint Branch Elementary School is a Public school that serves grade levels PK-5.
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