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How has Bannockburn Elementary changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
446
Elementary
DISTRICT 514 · STATE 481
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MONTGOMERY COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240048000779
Bannockburn Elementary
6520 Dalroy Ln, Bethesda, MD 20817 · (240) 740-1270 · Montgomery County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYREGULAR SCHOOL446 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 98% 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.
- ABeats 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
17.3:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
4%
18 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 67 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 59 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 54 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 94 | 21% |
| Grade 4 | 73 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 99 | 22% |
This year's kindergarten class (67) is 32% smaller than its 5th grade class (99).
Student demographics
58%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
93.5%
MD avg 50.6% . +6.2pp since 2023
Math
86.5%
MD avg 34.8% . +6.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 94 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 87 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 93.5% | 86.5% |
| 2023-24 | 87.3% | 80.0% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of MD schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
86.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
71.8%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+15.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 87% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 72% typical for Maryland schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 15 points, placing it in Maryland's top 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 Bannockburn Elementary
Bannockburn Elementary's state test result (86.8% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bannockburn Elementary this school | 446 | 4.0% | 86.8% |
| Bradley Hills Elementary Bethesda | 474 | 2.1% | 82.1% |
| Carderock Springs Elementary Bethesda | 363 | 5.5% | 85.3% |
| Burning Tree Elementary Bethesda | 479 | 8.6% | 80.1% |
| West Friendship Elementary West Friendship | 367 | 8.2% | 81.0% |
| Seven Locks Elementary Bethesda | 376 | 7.2% | 83.6% |
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 Bannockburn Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Montgomery County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 86.8% | #4 of 853 | #1 of 131 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 86.5% | #5 of 853 ▲ 18 | #4 of 131 ▲ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 93.5% | #2 of 853 ▲ 12 | #2 of 131 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 446 | #513 of 898 | #101 of 139 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.3:1 | #811 of 857 | #134 of 136 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.8% | #414 of 857 | #110 of 136 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 4.0% | #883 of 885 | #135 of 137 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -0.7% | #535 of 551 | #95 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
446
+45 (+11%) vs 2020
+29% since 1990-91, when it was 345
Student : Teacher
17.3:1
was 15.4:1
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 | 446 | 25.8 | 17.3:1 | 4% (18) |
| 2023-24 | 424 | 24.8 | 17.1:1 | 4% (18) |
| 2022-23 | 418 | 25 | 16.7:1 | 5% (22) |
| 2020-21 | 401 | 26 | 15.4:1 | 2% (8) |
| 2017-18 | 449 | 23.4 | 19.2:1 | 2% (9) |
| 2015-16 | 420 | 23 | 18.3:1 | 2% (7) |
| 2010-11 | 365 | 20 | 18.3:1 | 2% (7) |
| 2000-01 | 415 | 24 | 17.3:1 | 2% (9) |
| 1990-91 | 345 | 18 | 19.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Bannockburn Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 1% (449 to 446); teachers up 10% (23.4 to 25.8).
About Bannockburn Elementary
Bannockburn Elementary is one of the public schools in Bethesda, Maryland. It is a mid-sized elementary school. The school enrolls 446 students in kindergarten through 5.
Bannockburn Elementary is part of a district of 208 schools: Montgomery County Public Schools, with 159,181 students.
White students are 62% of those enrolled at Bannockburn Elementary. Next come 16% Asian, 9% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, and 6% Black. That compares with about 42% White among all Montgomery County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 58%.
Bannockburn Elementary reported 25.8 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 17.3:1. Elementary schools in Maryland have an average ratio of 13.8:1. Roughly 4% of students at Bannockburn Elementary can receive free or reduced-price lunch. That rate is below the 40% average among public schools in Montgomery County.
Among Maryland public elementary schools, Bannockburn Elementary outscored 98%, which works out to an A+ on the allk12 Grade.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Bannockburn Elementary would score about 71.8%. It scores 86.8%, a top-10% result among Maryland schools on BeatsExpectations.
For Montgomery County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $132,450 a year, 61% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of people live in poverty. Counting Bannockburn Elementary, Montgomery County has 211 public schools.
Walt Whitman High, about 0.7 miles away, is the closest public school. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Bannockburn Elementary is 1st of 9 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
The school's locale code, City: Small, means it is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Enrollment increased by 11% across 4 years, from 401 in 2020-21 to 446 in 2024-25. Its ratio of students to teachers was 15.4:1 in 2020-21, and 17.3:1 in 2024-25.
Bannockburn Elementary has a community page on allk12 for topics such as athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
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
- Ashburton ElementaryElementary · 871 students
Nearby schools
- Walt Whitman High0.7 mi · 2,056
- Thomas W. Pyle Middle1.1 mi · 1,259
- Burning Tree Elementary1.1 mi · 479
- Wood Acres Elementary1.1 mi · 609
- Westland Middle1.8 mi · 839
- Carderock Springs Elementary1.9 mi · 363
Frequently asked questions
About Bannockburn ElementaryHow many students attend Bannockburn Elementary?
Bannockburn Elementary enrolls approximately 446 students in grades KG-05.
Is Bannockburn Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Bannockburn Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Bannockburn Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Bannockburn Elementary is approximately 17.3:1 (26 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Bannockburn Elementary?
At Bannockburn Elementary, the student body is approximately 62% White, 9% Hispanic, 6% Black, 16% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Is Bannockburn Elementary public or private?
Bannockburn 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.