Burnt Mills Elementary

Burnt Mills Elementary operates as a heavily attended elementary campus in Silver Spring, Maryland, part of Montgomery County Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 747 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 481 students per school, that is 55% larger than typical.

Across the 208 schools in Montgomery County Public Schools (159,181 students total), Burnt Mills Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Burnt Mills Elementary logs that 43% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest consists of 20% Hispanic, 19% Asian, 13% White, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Montgomery County as a whole is about 19% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Burnt Mills Elementary has 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 62% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably above Montgomery County's rate of about 40%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Burnt Mills Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.5%, the actual is 39.0%, a residual of +1.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Montgomery County put median household income runs about $132,450, roughly 61% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Montgomery County runs 211 public schools (combined enrollment of about 159,181 students), of which Burnt Mills Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Kemp Mill Elementary, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Burnt Mills Elementary. On composite proficiency, Burnt Mills Elementary comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 37.4%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 26%: 591 students in 2018 compared to 747 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share fell from 59% to 43%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 today.

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