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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the Ashburton Elementary administration to hear?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Enrollment
871
Elementary
DISTRICT 514 · STATE 481
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MONTGOMERY COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240048000776
Ashburton Elementary
6314 Lone Oak Dr, Bethesda, MD 20817 · (240) 740-1300 · Montgomery County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL871 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 74% of Maryland public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Maryland public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
17.7:1
49 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
21%
187 students
DISTRICT 40% · STATE 54%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 1 | 0% |
| Kindergarten | 135 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 133 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 139 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 160 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 134 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 169 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (135) is 20% smaller than its 5th grade class (169).
Student demographics
77%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 75% · STATE 73% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
MCAP 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 3-4)English Language Arts
68.7%
MD avg 50.6% . +7.1pp since 2023
Math
66.5%
MD avg 34.8% . +0.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 69 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 67 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Maryland schools, those numbers are about 51 and 35. Reading and writing scores are up about 7 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 68.7% | 66.5% |
| 2023-24 | 61.6% | 66.4% |
% Proficient (Levels 3-4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: MCAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
65.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
61.5%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 62% typical for Maryland schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Maryland's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Ashburton Elementary
Ashburton Elementary's state test result (65.8% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ashburton Elementary this school | 871 | 21.5% | 65.8% |
| Garrett Park Elementary Kensington | 724 | 24.9% | 61.8% |
| Hammond Elementary Laurel | 763 | 18.6% | 60.2% |
| Luxmanor Elementary Rockville | 684 | 27.5% | 63.4% |
| Nantucket Elementary Crofton | 675 | 27.9% | 55.1% |
| Urbana Elementary Frederick | 736 | 22.6% | 71.3% |
Matched among Maryland elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Ashburton Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Montgomery County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 65.8% | #145 of 853 | #44 of 131 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 66.5% | #131 of 853 ▼ 17 | #36 of 131 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 68.7% | #163 of 853 ▲ 63 | #38 of 131 ▲ 26 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 871 | #24 of 898 | #1 of 139 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.7:1 | #832 of 857 | #135 of 136 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 77.1% | #6 of 857 | #5 of 136 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 21.5% | #772 of 885 | #107 of 137 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -0.7% | #534 of 551 | #94 of 97 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
871
-29 (-3%) vs 2020
+91% since 1990-91, when it was 456
Student : Teacher
17.7:1
was 16.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 871 | 49.1 | 17.7:1 | 21% (187) |
| 2023-24 | 821 | 49.4 | 16.6:1 | 18% (150) |
| 2022-23 | 810 | 50.7 | 16.0:1 | 20% (166) |
| 2020-21 | 900 | 54 | 16.7:1 | 13% (114) |
| 2017-18 | 877 | 50.5 | 17.4:1 | 12% (109) |
| 2015-16 | 911 | 51 | 17.9:1 | 12% (107) |
| 2010-11 | 732 | 43 | 17.0:1 | 11% (83) |
| 2000-01 | 513 | 34 | 15.1:1 | 13% (67) |
| 1990-91 | 456 | 27 | 16.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Ashburton Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 1% (877 to 871); teachers down 3% (50.5 to 49.1).
About Ashburton Elementary
Ashburton Elementary is a high-enrollment elementary school with its address in Bethesda, Maryland. The school's enrollment of 871 students covers kindergarten through 5. Enrollment is 81% higher than the average for elementary schools in Maryland, which is about 481.
Ashburton Elementary is one school in a 208-school district, Montgomery County Public Schools, which enrolls 159,181 students.
Federal enrollment data show White students as the largest group at Ashburton Elementary, at 33%. The rest of enrollment is 20% Black, 19% Hispanic, 18% Asian, and 10% multiracial. Among all residents of Montgomery County, the White share is about 42%. Ashburton Elementary's diversity index is 77%, against a US figure of 70%.
Its teaching staff equals 49.1 full-time positions, a ratio of 17.7:1. On average, elementary schools in Maryland have 13.8:1, compared with 17.7:1 here. Around 21% of the school's students qualify for free or reduced-price meals. The gap from the 40% average for public schools in Montgomery County is 19 points.
Ashburton Elementary is graded B+ by allk12, scoring above 74% of Maryland public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
In Maryland, Ashburton Elementary is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 65.8% actual against a predicted 61.5%.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Montgomery County show that the median household income is $132,450, about 61% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 5%. Besides Ashburton Elementary, Montgomery County has 210 other public schools.
Nearest public school: Walter Johnson High, about 0.5 miles away. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Ashburton Elementary ranks 3rd of 8 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 65.8% against a local average of 61.4%.
Ashburton Elementary is coded as City: Small in federal locale data.
The school enrolled 871 students in 2024-25, 29 fewer than the 900 it had in 2020-21. There were more students per teacher in 2024-25 (17.7:1) than in 2020-21 (16.7:1).
Community posts for Ashburton Elementary can cover enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Montgomery County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,065,949
Census ACS
Median income
$132,450
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
61%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
211
159,181 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Montgomery County Public Schools
- Montgomery Blair HighHigh · 3,266 students
- Walter Johnson HighHigh · 3,016 students
- Wheaton HighHigh · 2,794 students
- Gaithersburg HighHigh · 2,441 students
- Seneca Valley HighHigh · 2,409 students
- Bethesda-Chevy Chase HighHigh · 2,377 students
Other schools in Bethesda
- Walter Johnson HighHigh · 3,016 students
- Bethesda-Chevy Chase HighHigh · 2,377 students
- Walt Whitman HighHigh · 2,056 students
- Thomas W. Pyle MiddleMiddle · 1,259 students
- North Bethesda MiddleMiddle · 1,224 students
- Westland MiddleMiddle · 839 students
Nearby schools
- Walter Johnson High0.5 mi · 3,016
- Wyngate Elementary0.7 mi · 640
- North Bethesda Middle1.1 mi · 1,224
- Northwood High1.3 mi · 1,654
- Bradley Hills Elementary1.5 mi · 474
- Tilden Middle1.5 mi · 1,112
Frequently asked questions
About Ashburton ElementaryHow large is Ashburton Elementary?
Ashburton Elementary enrolls approximately 871 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Ashburton Elementary serve?
Ashburton Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Ashburton Elementary?
Approximately 17.7:1 students per teacher at Ashburton Elementary.
How diverse is Ashburton Elementary?
Ashburton Elementary reports a student body of 33% White, 19% Hispanic, 20% Black, 18% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Is Ashburton Elementary public or private?
Ashburton Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Montgomery County Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.