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What's the biggest difference between Burnt Mills Elementary and what you expected?
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Enrollment
747
Elementary
DISTRICT 514 · STATE 481
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MONTGOMERY COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240048090452
Burnt Mills Elementary
11211 Childs Street, Silver Spring, MD 20901 · (240) 740-7320 · Montgomery County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL747 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 41% of Maryland public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats 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
13.2:1
57 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
62%
464 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 57 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 104 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 132 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 113 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 135 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 105 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 101 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (104) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (101).
Student demographics
72%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
42.9%
MD avg 50.6% . +4.6pp since 2023
Math
36.0%
MD avg 34.8% . -2.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 36 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 42.9% | 36.0% |
| 2023-24 | 38.3% | 38.9% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
39.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
37.5%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 39% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 37% 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%.
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 Burnt Mills Elementary
Burnt Mills Elementary's state test result (39.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burnt Mills Elementary this school | 747 | 62.1% | 39.0% |
| Rossville Elementary Baltimore | 726 | 59.2% | 46.7% |
| Westowne Elementary Catonsville | 635 | 56.5% | 45.2% |
| Ducketts Lane Elementary Elkridge | 573 | 60.6% | 44.6% |
| Johnnycake Elementary Baltimore | 592 | 70.1% | 30.5% |
| Burtonsville Elementary Burtonsville | 601 | 54.9% | 46.8% |
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 Burnt Mills Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Montgomery County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 39.0% | #484 of 853 | #98 of 131 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 36.0% | #493 of 853 ▼ 73 | #102 of 131 ▼ 13 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 42.9% | #523 of 853 ▲ 9 | #98 of 131 ▲ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 747 | #63 of 898 | #6 of 139 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.2:1 | #322 of 857 | #74 of 136 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.7% | #131 of 857 | #43 of 136 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 62.1% | #369 of 885 | #19 of 137 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +26.4% | #51 of 294 | #5 of 34 |
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
747
+140 (+23%) vs 2020
+60% since 1990-91, when it was 468
Student : Teacher
13.2:1
was 14.1:1
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 | 747 | 56.6 | 13.2:1 | 62% (464) |
| 2023-24 | 684 | 52.6 | 13.0:1 | 58% (396) |
| 2022-23 | 637 | 45.7 | 13.9:1 | 70% (449) |
| 2020-21 | 607 | 43 | 14.1:1 | 63% (381) |
| 2017-18 | 591 | 41.5 | 14.2:1 | 63% (372) |
| 2015-16 | 531 | 38 | 14.0:1 | 67% (354) |
| 2010-11 | 410 | 30 | 13.7:1 | 64% (262) |
| 2000-01 | 628 | 41 | 15.3:1 | 53% (331) |
| 1990-91 | 468 | 21 | 22.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Burnt Mills Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 26% (591 to 747); teachers up 36% (41.5 to 56.6).
About Burnt Mills Elementary
Families in Silver Spring, Maryland, are served by Burnt Mills Elementary, a large elementary school. Enrollment in 2024-25 was 747 students in pre-K through 5. Against the 481-student average for elementary schools in Maryland, enrollment here is 55% higher.
Montgomery County Public Schools enrolls 159,181 students, and its 208 schools include Burnt Mills Elementary.
At Burnt Mills Elementary, the largest share of students is Black, at 43%. The remaining shares are 20% Hispanic, 19% Asian, 13% White, and 4% multiracial. Montgomery County as a whole is about 19% Black, so the school's share is higher. Burnt Mills Elementary's diversity index is 72%, against a US figure of 70%.
The school has about 13.2 students per teacher and 56.6 full-time-equivalent teachers. That matches the 13.8:1 average for elementary schools in Maryland fairly closely. Federal records put free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at 62%. The 40% average for public schools in Montgomery County is 22 points lower.
allk12 grades Burnt Mills Elementary a C+. The grade compares the school only with Maryland public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Based on student poverty, the model expects 37.5% at Burnt Mills Elementary; the school's average proficiency rate on state tests is 39.0%.
Burnt Mills Elementary is located in Montgomery County, where the median household income is $132,450, 61% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Burnt Mills Elementary is one of 211 public schools in the county.
The nearest public school is Kemp Mill Elementary, at about 0.9 miles. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Among 9 nearby schools that report test results, Burnt Mills Elementary ranks 3rd on proficiency.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment is up 23% from 2020-21, when Burnt Mills Elementary had 607 students, to 2024-25, when it had 747.
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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 Silver Spring
- Montgomery Blair HighHigh · 3,266 students
- Wheaton HighHigh · 2,794 students
- James Hubert Blake HighHigh · 1,960 students
- John F. Kennedy HighHigh · 1,880 students
- Springbrook HighHigh · 1,838 students
- Takoma Park MiddleMiddle · 1,177 students
Nearby schools
- Kemp Mill Elementary0.9 mi · 412
- Francis Scott Key Middle1.0 mi · 950
- Cresthaven Elementary1.1 mi · 474
- Forest Knolls Elementary1.1 mi · 472
- White Oak Middle1.2 mi · 808
- Jackson Road Elementary1.3 mi · 623
Frequently asked questions
About Burnt Mills ElementaryHow many students attend Burnt Mills Elementary?
Burnt Mills Elementary enrolls approximately 747 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Burnt Mills Elementary serve?
Burnt Mills Elementary serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Burnt Mills Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Burnt Mills Elementary is approximately 13.2:1 (57 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Burnt Mills Elementary?
Burnt Mills Elementary reports a student body of 13% White, 20% Hispanic, 43% Black, 19% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Burnt Mills Elementary?
Burnt Mills Elementary is overseen by Montgomery County Public Schools in Montgomery County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.