College Gardens Elementary

College Gardens Elementary operates as a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in Rockville, Maryland, run under Montgomery County Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 506 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

College Gardens Elementary is one of 208 schools operated by Montgomery County Public Schools, a district that caters to 159,181 students overall.

Demographically, College Gardens Elementary logs that 28% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest consists of 24% White, 22% Hispanic, 17% Asian, 9% 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, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 43% of students at College Gardens Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, College Gardens Elementary ranks in the top 10% of Maryland public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 48.6%; College Gardens Elementary posts 63.6%, +15.0 points above that line.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Montgomery County indicate the typical household earns roughly $132,450 per year, 61% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Montgomery County runs 211 public schools (combined enrollment of about 159,181 students), of which College Gardens Elementary is one.

PEP - Itinerant is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), College Gardens Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 61.1%.

College Gardens Elementary operates from a metropolitan location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at College Gardens Elementary has decreased 43%, going from 881 students in 2018 to 506 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 36% to 24% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 today.

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