Earle B. Wood Middle

Earle B. Wood Middle is one of the middle-of-the-pack 6-8 campuss in Rockville, Maryland, run under Montgomery County Public Schools, with 1,019 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 764 students per school, that is 33% bigger than typical.

Within Montgomery County Public Schools, which oversees 208 schools and 159,181 students, Earle B. Wood Middle is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Earle B. Wood Middle lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 48%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 23% White, 14% Black, 8% Asian, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 21% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 74 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.8:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 45% of students at Earle B. Wood Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Earle B. Wood Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.8%, the actual is 39.9%, a residual of -8.0 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Montgomery County indicate median household income runs about $132,450, 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 Earle B. Wood Middle is one.

Nearest neighbor: Lucy V. Barnsley Elementary, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Earle B. Wood Middle comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 48.0%.

Earle B. Wood Middle operates from a residential location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Earle B. Wood Middle has stayed largely flat, going from 1,026 students in 2018 to 1,019 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 28% to 23% across the same window.

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