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What's the biggest difference between Cannon Road Elementary and what you expected?
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Enrollment
388
Elementary
DISTRICT 514 · STATE 481
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MONTGOMERY COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240048000797
Cannon Road Elementary
901 Cannon Road, Silver Spring, MD 20904 · (240) 740-0520 · Montgomery County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL388 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
10.0:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
58%
226 students
DISTRICT 40% · STATE 54%
Community
1
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 57 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 60 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 70 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 68 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 68 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 65 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (57) is 12% smaller than its 5th grade class (65).
Student demographics
65%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
35.2%
MD avg 50.6% . +3.5pp since 2023
Math
28.6%
MD avg 34.8% . +1.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 35 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 29 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 1 points.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 35.2% | 28.6% |
| 2023-24 | 31.7% | 27.2% |
% 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
30.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.8%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 31% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 40% 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 Cannon Road Elementary
Cannon Road Elementary's state test result (30.7% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cannon Road Elementary this school | 388 | 58.2% | 30.7% |
| Lake Seneca Elementary Germantown | 437 | 61.3% | 35.7% |
| S. Christa McAuliffe Elementary Germantown | 467 | 55.0% | 40.1% |
| Clopper Mill Elementary Germantown | 458 | 60.9% | 34.5% |
| Dr. Sally K. Ride Elementary Germantown | 428 | 62.4% | 36.0% |
| Roscoe R Nix Elementary Silver Spring | 437 | 62.9% | N/A |
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 Cannon Road Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Montgomery County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 30.7% | #626 of 853 | #118 of 131 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 28.6% | #610 of 853 ▼ 26 | #116 of 131 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 35.2% | #631 of 853 ▲ 3 | #111 of 131 ▲ 9 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 388 | #620 of 898 | #114 of 139 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.0:1 | #16 of 857 | #7 of 136 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.9% | #300 of 857 | #86 of 136 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 58.2% | #436 of 885 | #37 of 137 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.7% | #458 of 551 | #82 of 97 |
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
388
-33 (-8%) vs 2020
-29% since 1990-91, when it was 544
Student : Teacher
10.0:1
was 11.7:1
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 | 388 | 38.9 | 10.0:1 | 58% (226) |
| 2023-24 | 405 | 38.4 | 10.6:1 | 56% (225) |
| 2022-23 | 401 | 33.7 | 11.9:1 | 70% (281) |
| 2020-21 | 421 | 36 | 11.7:1 | 57% (240) |
| 2017-18 | 407 | 32.6 | 12.5:1 | 60% (243) |
| 2015-16 | 445 | 32 | 13.9:1 | 65% (289) |
| 2010-11 | 424 | 33 | 12.8:1 | 58% (246) |
| 2000-01 | 397 | 28 | 14.2:1 | 30% (121) |
| 1990-91 | 544 | 25 | 21.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Cannon Road Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 5% (407 to 388); teachers up 19% (32.6 to 38.9).
About Cannon Road Elementary
At 901 Cannon Road in Silver Spring, Maryland, Cannon Road Elementary operates as a low-enrollment elementary school. There are 388 students enrolled, covering kindergarten through 5.
Cannon Road Elementary is one of the 208 schools that make up Montgomery County Public Schools (159,181 students in total).
At Cannon Road Elementary, Hispanic students make up the biggest share, 45%. Smaller groups are 37% Black, 8% Asian, 5% White, and 4% multiracial. County-wide, 21% of Montgomery County residents are Hispanic. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 65%.
Teacher count: 38.9 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 10.0:1. Across elementary schools in Maryland, the average ratio is 13.8:1. Roughly 58% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Montgomery County is 40%.
Cannon Road Elementary posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 30.7%, compared with a predicted 39.8%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Maryland schools on BeatsExpectations.
In the wider Montgomery County area, the median household earns about $132,450 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 61% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 5%. Cannon Road Elementary shares Montgomery County with 210 other public schools.
William Tyler Page Elementary is the nearest public school to Cannon Road Elementary, about 0.7 miles away. Cannon Road Elementary is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. The school's 30.7% average proficiency ranks 7th among 9 nearby schools.
For locale, NCES codes Cannon Road Elementary as Suburb: Large.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has fallen 8%, from 421 to 388. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 11.7:1 to 10.0:1.
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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
- William Tyler Page Elementary0.7 mi · 620
- Jackson Road Elementary0.9 mi · 623
- White Oak Middle0.9 mi · 808
- Springbrook High1.0 mi · 1,838
- Westover Elementary1.3 mi · 294
- Dr. Charles R. Drew Elementary1.6 mi · 485
Frequently asked questions
About Cannon Road ElementaryHow large is Cannon Road Elementary?
Cannon Road Elementary enrolls approximately 388 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Cannon Road Elementary serve?
Cannon Road Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Cannon Road Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Cannon Road Elementary is approximately 10.0:1 (39 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Cannon Road Elementary?
At Cannon Road Elementary, the student body is approximately 5% White, 45% Hispanic, 37% Black, 8% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is Cannon Road Elementary public or private?
Cannon Road Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Montgomery County Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.