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Enrollment
705
Middle
DISTRICT 888 · STATE 764
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MONTGOMERY COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240048000783
Benjamin Banneker Middle
14800 Perrywood Dr, Burtonsville, MD 20866 · (240) 740-6250 · Montgomery County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL705 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 14% of Maryland public middle schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
12.2:1
58 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.5:1 · STATE 14.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
52%
366 students
DISTRICT 40% · STATE 54%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 231 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 240 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 234 | 33% |
Student demographics
57%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
40.0%
MD avg 50.6% . +4.1pp since 2023
Math
19.7%
MD avg 34.8% . +5.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 20 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 40.0% | 19.7% |
| 2023-24 | 35.9% | 14.3% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of MD schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
27.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.5%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-16.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 27% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 44% typical for Maryland schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Benjamin Banneker Middle
Benjamin Banneker Middle's state test result (27.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benjamin Banneker Middle this school | 705 | 51.9% | 27.5% |
| Samuel Ogle Middle Bowie | 806 | 55.3% | 35.5% |
| Lake Elkhorn Middle Columbia | 569 | 49.0% | 29.9% |
| John Hanson Middle School Waldorf | 727 | 56.8% | 23.2% |
| Matthew Henson Middle School Indian Head | 701 | 48.5% | 28.8% |
| Briggs Chaney Middle Silver Spring | 858 | 62.0% | 32.5% |
Matched among Maryland middle 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 Benjamin Banneker Middle ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Montgomery County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 27.5% | #161 of 223 | #34 of 40 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 19.7% | #137 of 223 ▲ 18 | #34 of 40 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 40.0% | #166 of 223 ▲ 2 | #36 of 40 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 705 | #136 of 230 | #34 of 40 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.2:1 | #26 of 225 | #2 of 40 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.9% | #130 of 225 | #36 of 40 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 51.9% | #116 of 227 | #18 of 40 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.1% | #25 of 123 | #4 of 21 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
705
-159 (-18%) vs 2020
-11% since 1990-91, when it was 792
Student : Teacher
12.2:1
was 13.7:1
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 | 705 | 58 | 12.2:1 | 52% (366) |
| 2023-24 | 776 | 52.4 | 14.8:1 | 56% (431) |
| 2022-23 | 781 | 53.8 | 14.5:1 | 70% (546) |
| 2020-21 | 864 | 63 | 13.7:1 | 56% (482) |
| 2017-18 | 840 | 59.6 | 14.1:1 | 49% (414) |
| 2015-16 | 863 | 58 | 14.9:1 | 51% (440) |
| 2010-11 | 808 | 53 | 15.3:1 | 40% (326) |
| 2000-01 | 1,004 | 60 | 16.7:1 | 23% (229) |
| 1990-91 | 792 | 47 | 16.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Benjamin Banneker Middle.
Since 2017-18: students down 16% (840 to 705); teachers down 3% (59.6 to 58).
About Benjamin Banneker Middle
Located in Burtonsville, Maryland, Benjamin Banneker Middle is a mid-sized middle school. Enrollment stands at 705 students, covering grades 6 through 8.
Benjamin Banneker Middle is one school in a 208-school district, Montgomery County Public Schools, which enrolls 159,181 students.
More than half of enrollment at Benjamin Banneker Middle is Black: 59%. The remaining shares are 26% Hispanic, 9% Asian, and 3% White. Montgomery County as a whole is about 19% Black, so the school's share is higher. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Benjamin Banneker Middle scores 57%.
Its ratio of 12.2:1 is based on 58 full-time-equivalent teachers. Middle schools in Maryland average 14.3:1, 2.1 more students per teacher than here. The share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 52%. Public schools in Montgomery County average 40%.
Among Maryland public middle schools, Benjamin Banneker Middle outscored 14%, which works out to a D on the allk12 Grade.
Benjamin Banneker Middle ranks in the bottom 10% of Maryland schools after adjusting test results for student poverty. Actual: 27.5%. Predicted: 43.5%. Difference: 16.0 points.
American Community Survey estimates for Montgomery County show that median household income comes to about $132,450, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 61% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 5%. The county's public schools total 211, with about 159,181 students.
Of the public schools around it, Benjamin Banneker Middle is closest to Fairland Elementary, about 0.6 miles away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Benjamin Banneker Middle's average proficiency of 27.5% compares with 39.6% for its nearest scored neighbors.
Locale: Suburb: Large. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's student count decreased 18% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years. The school's ratio dropped from 13.7:1 to 12.2:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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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 Burtonsville
- Paint Branch HighHigh · 2,038 students
- Burtonsville ElementaryElementary · 601 students
Nearby schools
- Fairland Elementary0.6 mi · 553
- Paint Branch High0.6 mi · 2,038
- Greencastle Elementary1.1 mi · 722
- Burtonsville Elementary1.2 mi · 601
- Briggs Chaney Middle1.5 mi · 858
- JoAnn Leleck at Broad Acres Elementary1.6 mi · 756
Frequently asked questions
About Benjamin Banneker MiddleHow many students attend Benjamin Banneker Middle?
Benjamin Banneker Middle enrolls approximately 705 students in grades 06-08.
Is Benjamin Banneker Middle an elementary, middle, or high school?
Benjamin Banneker Middle is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does Benjamin Banneker Middle have?
Benjamin Banneker Middle employs 58 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.2:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Benjamin Banneker Middle?
At Benjamin Banneker Middle, the student body is approximately 3% White, 26% Hispanic, 59% Black, 9% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees Benjamin Banneker Middle?
Benjamin Banneker Middle is overseen by Montgomery County Public Schools in Montgomery County.
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