Mount Rainier, MD schools
Mount Rainier’s public schools score well below Maryland’s averages: 24% of students are proficient in reading against 35.5% statewide, and 76% of high schoolers graduate on time against 86.7%. Kids attend Thomas S. Stone Elementary or Mt Rainier Elementary through grade 5, then one of 37 middle schools and one of 24 high schools.
Grades, test scores, graduation, spending and every school, from U.S. Department of Education data.
Mount Rainier’s School Grade: D
The public schools Mount Rainier’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 92% of Maryland’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Maryland’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of Maryland only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
- Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in Maryland with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
Where Mount Rainier kids go to school
Based on district boundaries from the U.S. Department of Education. Check with the district before you enroll.
Well below the state in reading
76% graduate on time
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years. #192 of 258 MD towns →
The district serving Mount Rainier
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Colleges near Mount Rainier
There’s no college in Mount Rainier, but 40 colleges are within 30 miles. The closest is Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family in Washington, 1.9 miles away.
30 more within 30 miles.
Straight-line distance from the center of Mount Rainier. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus. Colleges marked › have their own page; the others are too small or don’t report enough to the Department of Education for one.
All 2 schools in Mount Rainier
School data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.
Schools Mount Rainier kids attend in other towns
Public schools in Mount Rainier’s district that are located in Accokeek, Hyattsville, Greenbelt, Adelphi, Lanham, Riverdale, Beltsville, Bowie, Capitol Heights, Laurel and District Heights. Which one depends on your address.