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The highest-poverty public middle schools in Montgomery County, Maryland

40 public middle schools in Montgomery County, Maryland appear in this ranking of the highest-poverty public middle schools, ranked by share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Francis Scott Key Middle leads the list at 63.3%, against a median of 45.1% across the ranked schools.

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Schools ranked

Montgomery County, Maryland

Top % FRL

63.3%

Median % FRL

45.1%

HIGHEST POVERTY · MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MARYLAND

#	School	City	District	Level	Students	% FRL
1	Francis Scott Key Middle	Silver Spring, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	Middle	950	63.3%
2	Gaithersburg Middle	Gaithersburg, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	Middle	869	63.2%
3	A. Mario Loiederman Middle	Silver Spring, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	Middle	978	62.8%
4	Briggs Chaney Middle	Silver Spring, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	Middle	858	62.0%
5	Argyle Middle	Silver Spring, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	Middle	868	61.4%
6	Parkland Middle	Rockville, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	Middle	1,185	60.0%
7	Montgomery Village Middle	Montgomery Village, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	Middle	780	59.2%
8	Forest Oak Middle	Gaithersburg, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	Middle	828	58.3%
9	White Oak Middle	Silver Spring, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	Middle	808	57.3%
10	Odessa Shannon Middle	Silver Spring, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	Middle	784	55.6%
11	Neelsville Middle	Germantown, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	Middle	781	55.1%
12	Roberto W. Clemente Middle	Germantown, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	Middle	888	55.0%
13	Martin Luther King Jr. Middle	Germantown, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	Middle	841	54.1%
14	Newport Mill Middle	Kensington, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	Middle	652	53.1%
15	Eastern Middle	Silver Spring, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	Middle	963	52.4%
16	Shady Grove Middle	Gaithersburg, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	Middle	514	52.3%
17	Redland Middle	Rockville, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	Middle	562	52.1%
18	Benjamin Banneker Middle	Burtonsville, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	Middle	705	51.9%
19	Sligo Middle	Silver Spring, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	Middle	685	46.7%
20	Rocky Hill Middle	Clarksburg, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	Middle	1,010	45.6%
21	Earle B. Wood Middle	Rockville, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	Middle	1,019	44.7%
22	Silver Spring International Middle	Silver Spring, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	Middle	1,015	43.7%
23	Ridgeview Middle	Gaithersburg, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	Middle	722	41.7%
24	Julius West Middle	Rockville, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	Middle	1,365	38.3%
25	John T. Baker Middle School	Damascus, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	Middle	841	37.1%
26	Kingsview Middle	Germantown, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	Middle	908	35.6%
27	Takoma Park Middle	Silver Spring, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	Middle	1,177	35.1%
28	Lakelands Park Middle	Gaithersburg, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	Middle	993	34.0%
29	Silver Creek Middle	Kensington, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	Middle	751	32.6%
30	William H. Farquhar Middle	Olney, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	Middle	682	27.7%
31	Tilden Middle	Rockville, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	Middle	1,112	24.1%
32	John Poole Middle	Poolesville, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	Middle	467	20.8%
33	Hallie Wells Middle	Clarksburg, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	Middle	931	18.5%
34	Westland Middle	Bethesda, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	Middle	839	17.5%
35	Rosa M. Parks Middle	Olney, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	Middle	863	16.5%
36	Robert Frost Middle School	Rockville, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	Middle	915	16.4%
37	North Bethesda Middle	Bethesda, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	Middle	1,224	15.9%
38	Cabin John Middle	Potomac, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	Middle	983	12.3%
39	Herbert Hoover Middle	Potomac, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	Middle	930	11.8%
40	Thomas W. Pyle Middle	Bethesda, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	Middle	1,259	6.4%

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