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Beall Elementary
Test scores
MCAP 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 3-4)What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 71 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 66 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Maryland schools, those numbers are about 51 and 35. Reading and writing scores are down about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 69% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 58% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Beall Elementary
Beall Elementary, a mid-tier primary school in Rockville, Maryland, one of the schools within Montgomery County Public Schools, hosts 475 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.
Montgomery County Public Schools comprises 208 schools with combined enrollment of 159,181 students; Beall Elementary is among them.
Demographically, Beall Elementary reports that the most-represented group is White (40%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 29% Hispanic, 13% Asian, 9% multiracial, 9% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Montgomery County as a whole.
In terms of school funding signals, Beall Elementary logs 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. About 28% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Montgomery County runs at roughly 40%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Beall Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.9%, the actual is 69.0%, a residual of +11.1 points.
In the surrounding community, Montgomery County reports that the typical household earns roughly $132,450 per year, roughly 61% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Montgomery County's 211 public schools (combined enrollment of about 159,181 students), Beall Elementary is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: PEP - Itinerant, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Beall Elementary comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 55.2%.
The school occupies a downtown site.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 39%: 785 students in 2018 compared to 475 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 25% to 13% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 today.
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