Clarksburg Elementary

Clarksburg Elementary operates as an intimate K-5 school in Clarksburg, Maryland, operated by Montgomery County Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 365 students spanning grades K through 5. By comparison, Maryland's public schools average about 481 students each, so Clarksburg Elementary sits 24% smaller than that benchmark.

Montgomery County Public Schools runs 208 schools in total, collectively educating 159,181 students. Clarksburg Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Clarksburg Elementary records that 32% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 32% Asian, 18% Hispanic, 12% White, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Montgomery County as a whole is about 19% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Clarksburg Elementary has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 35% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Clarksburg Elementary is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 53.5%; this one delivers 69.2%, a residual of +15.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, Montgomery County reports that median household earnings sit near $132,450, roughly 61% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Clarksburg Elementary is one of 211 public schools in Montgomery County (combined enrollment of about 159,181 students).

Nearest neighbor: Little Bennett Elementary, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Clarksburg Elementary. On composite proficiency, Clarksburg Elementary comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 61.5%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Clarksburg Elementary has ticked down 9%, going from 402 students in 2018 to 365 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share increased from 21% to 32%. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 in 2025.

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