Cabin Branch Elementary

Cabin Branch Elementary is an elementary campus of average-sized scale in Clarksburg, Maryland, run under Montgomery County Public Schools, instructing 645 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 34% bigger than the typical public school in Maryland, which averages around 481 students.

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

Demographically, Cabin Branch Elementary records that the most-represented group is Asian (38%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school shows 32% Black, 14% Hispanic, 10% White, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Montgomery County as a whole is about 15% Asian, so the school skews considerably more Asian than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Around 28% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Montgomery County's rate of about 40%.

After controlling for student poverty, Cabin Branch Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.6%, the actual is 69.0%, a residual of +11.4 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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Montgomery County's 211 public schools (combined enrollment of about 159,181 students), Cabin Branch Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Clarksburg Elementary, around 1.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Cabin Branch Elementary comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 58.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

In the discussion threads here, members of the Cabin Branch Elementary community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.