East Silver Spring Elementary

East Silver Spring Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack primary school in Silver Spring, Maryland, overseen by Montgomery County Public Schools. The school teaches 540 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Montgomery County Public Schools comprises 208 schools with combined enrollment of 159,181 students; East Silver Spring Elementary is among them.

In terms of who attends, East Silver Spring Elementary logs that the largest single group is Black at 52%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 19% White, 19% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 19%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, East Silver Spring Elementary has 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.1:1. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 53% of students at East Silver Spring Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Montgomery County's rate of about 40%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, East Silver Spring Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.1%, the actual is 51.0%, a residual of +7.9 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Montgomery County put the typical household earns roughly $132,450 per year, 61% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Montgomery County runs 211 public schools (combined enrollment of about 159,181 students), of which East Silver Spring Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Takoma Park Middle, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts East Silver Spring Elementary at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 48.0%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at East Silver Spring Elementary has remained close to its prior level, going from 539 students in 2018 to 540 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged up from 15% to 19%. Class-load math has tightened: from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 in 2025.

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