Fields Road Elementary

Fields Road Elementary operates as a mid-tier elementary campus in Gaithersburg, Maryland, overseen by Montgomery County Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 453 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Montgomery County Public Schools runs 208 schools in total, collectively educating 159,181 students. Fields Road Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Fields Road Elementary logs that 39% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder looks like 23% White, 19% Black, 14% Asian, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 21% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Around 51% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Montgomery County's rate of about 40%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Fields Road Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 44.0%; this one delivers 54.1%.

Around the school, 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 Fields Road Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Lakelands Park Middle, roughly 1.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Fields Road Elementary at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 45.7%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Fields Road Elementary has shrank 3%, going from 467 students in 2018 to 453 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 today.

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