Editing Takoma Park, Maryland (section)

====Public schools====
The city is served by the [[Montgomery County Public Schools (Maryland)|Montgomery County Public Schools]].

Elementary schools that serve the city include:<ref>{{Cite web |title=Montgomery County Public Schools |url=https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180905170629/https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/ |archive-date=September 5, 2018 |access-date=October 11, 2018 |df=mdy-all}}</ref>
* Piney Branch Elementary School (3–5)
* Rolling Terrace Elementary School (PK–5)
* Sligo Creek Elementary School (K–5)
* Takoma Park Elementary School (PK–2)

Most Takoma Park residents are zoned to Takoma Park ES and Piney Branch. Sligo Creek Elementary School has new boundaries that no longer include students living in Takoma Park. SCES has a French Immersion program open to all Montgomery County families via lottery. {{citation needed|date=October 2018}}

Middle schools that serve the city include:
* Silver Spring International Middle School
* Takoma Park Middle School, (most Takoma Park residents are zoned to Takoma Park MS)

All of the city is served by [[Montgomery Blair High School]]. With the [[Downcounty Consortium]], students have limited opportunity to enroll in one of four other schools, including [[John F. Kennedy High School (Montgomery County, Maryland)|Kennedy]], [[Northwood High School (Silver Spring, Maryland)|Northwood]], [[Albert Einstein High School|Einstein]], and [[Wheaton High School|Wheaton]].

Prior to the mid-1990s sections of the Takoma Park [[census-designated place]] were zoned to [[Prince George's County Public Schools]] (PGCPS). These sections are now designated as being in the [[Chillum, Maryland|Chillum CDP]] index map.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-09-08 |title=1990 COUNTY BLOCK MAP (RECREATED): PRINCE GEORGE'S County" index map |url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/blk1990/st24_Maryland/24033_PrinceGeorges/90B24033_000.pdf |website=U.S. Census Bureau}}</ref> PG County Takoma Park CDP is shown on pages 7 <ref>{{Cite web |title=census |url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/blk1990/st24_Maryland/24033_PrinceGeorges/90B24033_007.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030505135125/http://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/blk1990/st24_Maryland/24033_PrinceGeorges/90B24033_007.pdf |archive-date=May 5, 2003 |access-date=September 9, 2018 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> and 12.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-09-08 |title=1990 COUNTY BLOCK MAP (RECREATED): PRINCE GEORGE'S County" index map |url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/blk1990/st24_Maryland/24033_PrinceGeorges/90B24033_012.pdf |website=U.S. Census Bureau}}</ref> From 1950 to 1964, during the era of legally-required racial segregation of schools, black students from the PG County section of Takoma Park attended [[Fairmont Heights High School]], then near [[Fairmount Heights, Maryland|Fairmount Heights]].<ref name="FairmontHeightshistoryasof2005">{{Cite web |date=2018-09-04 |title=Fairmont Heights High School History |url=http://www.pgcps.org:80/~fmhts/history.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051004001621/http://www.pgcps.org/~fmhts/history.html |archive-date=October 4, 2005 |access-date=2018-09-04 |publisher=Fairmont Heights High School |df=mdy-all}}</ref>