Argyle Middle

Argyle Middle operates as a moderately sized middle-grades school in Silver Spring, Maryland, one of the schools within Montgomery County Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 868 students spanning grades 6 through 8.

Montgomery County Public Schools runs 208 schools in total, collectively educating 159,181 students. Argyle Middle is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Argyle Middle logs that 52% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 30% Black, 7% Asian, 7% White, 3% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 21%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 66 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 61% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Montgomery County (around 40%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Argyle Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 37.9%; this one delivers 30.6%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Montgomery County indicate median household earnings sit near $132,450, roughly 61% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Argyle Middle is one of 211 public schools in Montgomery County (combined enrollment of about 159,181 students).

Bel Pre Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Argyle Middle comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 41.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 12%: 989 students in 2018 compared to 868 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 47% to 52% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 today.

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