Brown Station Elementary

Brown Station Elementary is one of the moderately sized elementary-level communitys in Gaithersburg, Maryland, operated by Montgomery County Public Schools, with 572 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Within Montgomery County Public Schools, which oversees 208 schools and 159,181 students, Brown Station Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Brown Station Elementary logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 66%; the rest looks like 13% Black, 10% Asian, 7% White, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Montgomery County as a whole is about 21% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Around 58% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Montgomery County runs at roughly 40%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Brown Station Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.2%, the actual is 33.3%, a residual of -6.9 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Montgomery County indicate median household income runs about $132,450, 61% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Montgomery County's 211 public schools (combined enrollment of about 159,181 students), Brown Station Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Diamond Elementary, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Brown Station Elementary at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 51.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Brown Station Elementary has stayed largely flat, going from 579 students in 2018 to 572 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 48% to 66%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 9.9:1 today.

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