Fallsmead Elementary

As a reasonably sized elementary-level community in Rockville, Maryland, Fallsmead Elementary works with 512 students from grades K through 5, overseen by Montgomery County Public Schools.

Within Montgomery County Public Schools, which oversees 208 schools and 159,181 students, Fallsmead Elementary is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Fallsmead Elementary shows that the most-represented group is Asian (34%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 32% White, 15% Hispanic, 11% Black, 9% multiracial. By comparison, Montgomery County as a whole is about 15% Asian, so the school skews considerably more Asian than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.1:1. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 19% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than Montgomery County's rate of about 40%.

After controlling for student poverty, Fallsmead Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.0%, the actual is 71.7%, a residual of +8.7 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Montgomery County indicate the typical household earns roughly $132,450 per year, roughly 61% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Montgomery County's 211 public schools (combined enrollment of about 159,181 students), Fallsmead Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Thomas S. Wootton High, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Fallsmead Elementary ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 67.2%.

Fallsmead Elementary operates from a metropolitan location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 8%: 558 students in 2018 compared to 512 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 46% to 32% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.1:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 today.

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