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Public school / Primary

Piney Branch Elementary

Takoma Park, Maryland

NCES ID
240048000894
District
Montgomery County Public Schools
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Piney Branch Elementary is a public primary school in Takoma Park, Maryland, run by Montgomery County Public Schools. It enrols 599 students — the 26907th largest of 1,425 public schools in Maryland.

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Reported figures, 2022–2023

The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.

Enrollment

599students

26907th nationally, tied with 85

Teachers

38.0FTE

27495th nationally, tied with 1,521

Students per teacher

15.8students

54892nd nationally, tied with 904

Free or reduced-price lunch

37.6%percent

62749th nationally, tied with 90

How these figures are defined

Enrollment

Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.

Teachers

Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.

Students per teacher

Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.

Free or reduced-price lunch

Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.

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Within Montgomery County Public Schools

Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Montgomery Blair High3,204 students
  2. 2Walter Johnson High2,942 students
  3. 3Wheaton High2,599 students
  4. 4Northwest High2,484 students
  5. 5Gaithersburg High2,436 students
  6. 6Richard Montgomery High2,390 students
  7. 7Bethesda-Chevy Chase High2,335 students
  8. 8Clarksburg High2,251 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Maryland median across 1,425 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment+10.8%
  • Teachers0.0%
  • Students per teacher+7.5%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−33.2%
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Where this sits

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Sources & licence

Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.

Provenance

National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data — school and district directory
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.