Bethesda Elementary School is located in the heart of downtown Bethesda. Children at the school attend both Thomas W. Pyle Middle School and Walt Whitman High School and Westland Middle School and Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School. However, after a 2013 redistricting of some Bethesda Elementary students, the school will feed only to Westland and Bethesda-Chevy Chase. The school's mascot is the lion, and it serves nearly 500 students in pre-Kindergarten through 5th grade.