Belmont Elementary

Located at 19528 Olney Mill Rd, in Olney, Maryland, Belmont Elementary is a close-knit elementary school that instructs 343 students (grades K through 5), one of the schools within Montgomery County Public Schools. That puts it 29% smaller than the typical public school in Maryland, which averages around 481 students.

Montgomery County Public Schools comprises 208 schools with combined enrollment of 159,181 students; Belmont Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Belmont Elementary logs that the largest single group is White, at 58% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 17% Black, 12% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 5% Asian. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 42%.

Looking at school resources, Belmont Elementary reports 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 16% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Montgomery County's rate of about 40%.

With demographic context factored in, Belmont Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.5%, the actual is 67.5%, a residual of +3.0 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Montgomery County shows 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%. In all, Montgomery County runs 211 public schools (combined enrollment of about 159,181 students), of which Belmont Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Rosa M. Parks Middle, around 0.9 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Belmont Elementary comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 57.4%.

Belmont Elementary operates from a bedroom-community location.

Five-year trend. Belmont Elementary's enrollment has grew 7% since 2018, when it stood at 320 (now 343). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 70% to 58%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 today.

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