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==Education== Mount Rainier is a part of the [[Prince George's County Public Schools]] system.<ref>"[http://www.mountrainiermd.org/residents/education/ Education]." Mount Rainier, Maryland. Retrieved on March 1, 2018.</ref><ref>"[http://www.mountrainiermd.org/wp-content/uploads/Mt%20Rainier%20Street%20Map.pdf Street Map] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181105013802/http://www.mountrainiermd.org/wp-content/uploads/Mt%20Rainier%20Street%20Map.pdf |date=2018-11-05}}." Mount Rainier. Retrieved on March 1, 2018.</ref> Schools that serve Mount Rainier include: * Elementary schools:<ref>"[http://gis.pgcps.org/mapgallery/Maps/Boundaries%20-%20Elementary.pdf NEIGHBORHOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND BOUNDARIES SCHOOL YEAR 2017-2018]." [[Prince George's County Public Schools]]. Retrieved on January 31, 2018.</ref> ** Mount Rainier Elementary School *** Mount Rainier began its [[English as a second language]] (ESOL) program circa 2004. By that year the school administration was translating communications for parents into Spanish.<ref>{{cite news|author=Lyles, Jeffrey K.|author2=Corina E. Rivera|url=http://www.gazette.net/gazette_archive/2004/200447/porttowns/news/246367-1.html|title=County schools reach out to Hispanics|newspaper=[[The Gazette (Maryland)|The Gazette]]|date=November 18, 2004|access-date=September 10, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180909100247/http://www.gazette.net/gazette_archive/2004/200447/porttowns/news/246367-1.html|archive-date=September 9, 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> ** Thomas Stone Elementary School * Hyattsville Middle School (in the city of [[Hyattsville, Maryland|Hyattsville]])<ref>"[http://gis.pgcps.org/mapgallery/Maps/Boundaries%20-%20Middle.pdf NEIGHBORHOOD MIDDLE SCHOOLS AND BOUNDARIES SCHOOL YEAR 2017-2018]." [[Prince George's County Public Schools]]. Retrieved on January 31, 2018.</ref> * [[Northwestern High School (Hyattsville, Maryland)|Northwestern High School]] (Hyattsville)<ref>"[http://gis.pgcps.org/mapgallery/Maps/Boundaries%20-%20High.pdf NEIGHBORHOOD HIGH SCHOOLS AND BOUNDARIES SCHOOL YEAR 2017-2018]." [[Prince George's County Public Schools]]. Retrieved on January 31, 2018.</ref> In the 1940s, when schools in PG County legally were segregated by race, black high school students attended [[Lakeland High School (Maryland)|Lakeland High School]] in [[College Park, Maryland|College Park]].<ref name=LakelandAframPT37>Lakeland Community Heritage Project Inc. ''Lakeland: African Americans in College Park''. [[Arcadia Publishing]], September 18, 2012. {{ISBN|1439622744}}, 9781439622742. [[Google Books]] [https://books.google.com/books?id=cjXs-pFuXboC&pg=PT37 PT37].</ref> [[Fairmont Heights High School]], then near [[Fairmount Heights, Maryland|Fairmount Heights]], replaced it in 1950. In 1964, legal racial segregation of PG County schools ended.<ref name=FairmontHeightshistoryasof2005>{{cite web|url=http://www.pgcps.org:80/~fmhts/history.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051004001621/http://www.pgcps.org/~fmhts/history.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 4, 2005|title=Fairmont Heights High School History|publisher=Fairmont Heights High School|date=September 4, 2018|access-date=September 4, 2018}}</ref>
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