Albert Einstein High

Albert Einstein High, a well-populated 9-12 campus in Kensington, Maryland, run under Montgomery County Public Schools, instructs 1,991 students, covering grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Maryland's public schools average about 1,185 students each, so Albert Einstein High sits 68% above that benchmark.

Albert Einstein High is one of 208 schools operated by Montgomery County Public Schools, a district that instructs 159,181 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Albert Einstein High lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 23% White, 16% Black, 7% Asian, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Montgomery County as a whole is about 21% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Albert Einstein High logs 134 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 42% of students at Albert Einstein High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Albert Einstein High is in the bottom 10% of Maryland public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 49.1%; Albert Einstein High posts 35.7%, -13.4 points below that line.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Montgomery County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $132,450 per year, about 61% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Albert Einstein High is one of 211 public schools in Montgomery County (combined enrollment of about 159,181 students).

The closest other public school is Newport Mill Middle, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Albert Einstein High comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 38.9%.

Albert Einstein High operates from a residential location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 10%: 1,803 students in 2018 compared to 1,991 in 2025.

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