Damascus Elementary

Damascus Elementary is a low-enrollment primary school in Damascus, Maryland, overseen by Montgomery County Public Schools. The school serves 331 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 31% smaller 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), Damascus Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Damascus Elementary lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 43%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest breaks down as 36% White, 11% Black, 5% Asian, 5% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 21%.

On the resource side, On paper, Damascus Elementary has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Roughly 46% of students at Damascus Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Damascus Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.9%, the actual is 53.7%, a residual of +6.9 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Montgomery County) records that median household earnings sit near $132,450, about 61% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Damascus Elementary is one of 211 public schools in Montgomery County (combined enrollment of about 159,181 students).

Damascus High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Damascus Elementary comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 59.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Over the past 7-year window. Damascus Elementary's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 331 (now 331). White enrollment moved from 53% to 36% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 11.2:1 today.

On the community side, members of the Damascus Elementary community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.