Cedar Grove Elementary

As a cozy K-5 school in Germantown, Maryland, Cedar Grove Elementary teaches 326 students from grades K through 5, overseen by Montgomery County Public Schools. That puts it 32% leaner than the typical public school in Maryland, which averages around 481 students.

Cedar Grove Elementary is one of 208 schools operated by Montgomery County Public Schools, a district that teaches 159,181 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Cedar Grove Elementary logs that 39% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school logs 22% White, 17% Hispanic, 16% Black, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Montgomery County as a whole is about 15% Asian, so the school skews visibly more Asian than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school reports having 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Cedar Grove Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 27% of students at Cedar Grove Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Montgomery County (around 40%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Cedar Grove Elementary sits in the top 10% of Maryland schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 58.2%; actual is 79.7%, +21.5 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Across the wider county, Montgomery County reports that median household earnings sit near $132,450, 61% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Cedar Grove Elementary is one of 211 public schools in Montgomery County (combined enrollment of about 159,181 students).

Nearest neighbor: Lois P. Rockwell Elementary, around 1.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Cedar Grove Elementary comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 63.2%.

Cedar Grove Elementary operates from a low-density location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Cedar Grove Elementary has shrank 47%, going from 612 students in 2018 to 326 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 34% to 22% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 in 2025.

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