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The public high schools with the lowest student-to-teacher ratios in Montgomery County, Maryland

25 public high schools in Montgomery County, Maryland appear in this ranking of the public high schools with the lowest student-to-teacher ratios, ranked by the fewest students per teacher, a proxy for class size and staffing. Watkins Mill High leads the list at 13.8:1, against a median of 16.2:1 across the ranked schools.

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Schools ranked

Montgomery County, Maryland

Best Students/teacher

13.8:1

Median Students/teacher

16.2:1

LOWEST RATIO · MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MARYLAND

#	School	City	District	Level	Students	Ratio
1	Watkins Mill High	Gaithersburg, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	High	1,577	13.8:1
2	Gaithersburg High	Gaithersburg, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	High	2,441	13.9:1
3	Northwood High	Rockville, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	High	1,654	14.2:1
4	Rockville High	Rockville, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	High	1,550	14.8:1
5	Albert Einstein High	Kensington, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	High	1,991	14.8:1
6	John F. Kennedy High	Silver Spring, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	High	1,880	15.0:1
7	Seneca Valley High	Germantown, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	High	2,409	15.1:1
8	Col. Zadok Magruder High	Rockville, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	High	1,671	15.4:1
9	Springbrook High	Silver Spring, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	High	1,838	15.4:1
10	Paint Branch High	Burtonsville, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	High	2,038	15.6:1
11	Quince Orchard High	Gaithersburg, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	High	2,100	16.1:1
12	Damascus High	Damascus, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	High	1,390	16.1:1
13	Wheaton High	Silver Spring, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	High	2,794	16.2:1
14	Sherwood High	Sandy Spring, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	High	1,675	16.3:1
15	Montgomery Blair High	Silver Spring, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	High	3,266	16.4:1
16	Northwest High	Germantown, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	High	2,300	16.7:1
17	Bethesda-Chevy Chase High	Bethesda, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	High	2,377	16.7:1
18	Clarksburg High	Clarksburg, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	High	2,241	17.1:1
19	James Hubert Blake High	Silver Spring, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	High	1,960	17.1:1
20	Richard Montgomery High	Rockville, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	High	2,366	17.6:1
21	Walt Whitman High	Bethesda, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	High	2,056	17.9:1
22	Walter Johnson High	Bethesda, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	High	3,016	18.1:1
23	Winston Churchill High	Potomac, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	High	2,185	18.3:1
24	Thomas S. Wootton High	Rockville, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	High	1,870	18.5:1
25	Poolesville High	Poolesville, MD	Montgomery County Public Schools	High	1,351	20.3:1

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