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Enrollment
828
Middle
DISTRICT 888 · STATE 764
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MONTGOMERY COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240048000644
Forest Oak Middle
651 Saybrooke Oaks Blvd, Gaithersburg, MD 20877 · (240) 740-7570 · Montgomery County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL828 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 11% of Maryland public middle schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Maryland public middle schools
Student : Teacher
12.6:1
66 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.5:1 · STATE 14.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
58%
483 students
DISTRICT 40% · STATE 54%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 270 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 268 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 290 | 35% |
Student demographics
55%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 75% · STATE 73% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
MCAP 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 3-4)English Language Arts
38.5%
MD avg 50.6% . +10.5pp since 2023
Math
20.6%
MD avg 34.8% . +6.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 39 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 21 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Maryland schools, those numbers are about 51 and 35. Reading and writing scores are up about 11 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 38.5% | 20.6% |
| 2023-24 | 28.0% | 13.7% |
% Proficient (Levels 3-4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: MCAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of MD schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
25.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.7%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-14.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 25% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 40% typical for Maryland schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Forest Oak Middle
Forest Oak Middle's state test result (25.2% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forest Oak Middle this school | 828 | 58.3% | 25.2% |
| Odessa Shannon Middle Silver Spring | 784 | 55.6% | 23.6% |
| Montgomery Village Middle Montgomery Village | 780 | 59.2% | 17.5% |
| Gaithersburg Middle Gaithersburg | 869 | 63.2% | 23.8% |
| White Oak Middle Silver Spring | 808 | 57.3% | 29.5% |
| Argyle Middle Silver Spring | 868 | 61.4% | 30.6% |
Matched among Maryland middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Forest Oak Middle ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Montgomery County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 25.2% | #173 of 223 | #37 of 40 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 20.6% | #131 of 223 ▲ 30 | #32 of 40 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 38.5% | #174 of 223 ▲ 22 | #37 of 40 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 828 | #91 of 230 | #27 of 40 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.6:1 | #36 of 225 | #4 of 40 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.2% | #138 of 225 | #38 of 40 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 58.3% | #83 of 227 | #8 of 40 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.8% | #100 of 123 | #15 of 21 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
828
-92 (-10%) vs 2020
-9% since 2000-01, when it was 908
Student : Teacher
12.6:1
was 13.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 828 | 66 | 12.6:1 | 58% (483) |
| 2023-24 | 847 | 69.8 | 12.1:1 | 59% (496) |
| 2022-23 | 922 | 63.2 | 14.6:1 | 75% (690) |
| 2020-21 | 920 | 71 | 13.0:1 | 61% (562) |
| 2017-18 | 861 | 60.2 | 14.3:1 | 58% (500) |
| 2015-16 | 804 | 58 | 13.9:1 | 59% (471) |
| 2010-11 | 853 | 57 | 15.0:1 | 50% (424) |
| 2000-01 | 908 | 57 | 15.9:1 | 31% (283) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Forest Oak Middle.
Since 2017-18: students down 4% (861 to 828); teachers up 10% (60.2 to 66).
About Forest Oak Middle
Forest Oak Middle sits in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and is classified as a middle-grades school. It educates 828 students in grades 6 through 8.
In Montgomery County Public Schools, 208 schools enroll a combined 159,181 students.
Roughly 62% of students at Forest Oak Middle are Hispanic. Other groups include 24% Black, 7% White, 5% Asian, and 2% multiracial. By comparison, Montgomery County residents are about 21% Hispanic. Pick two students at random and there is a 55% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
The school reported 66 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25 and a ratio of 12.6:1. That is 1.7 students per teacher below the 14.3:1 average for middle schools in Maryland. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 58%. The gap from the 40% average for public schools in Montgomery County is 18 points.
allk12 grades Forest Oak Middle a D. The grade compares the school only with Maryland public middle schools, because each state gives its own test.
The school's average proficiency rate on state tests, 25.2%, is 14.5 points below the 39.7% the model predicts from its free or reduced-price lunch share. That result is in the bottom 10% of Maryland schools.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Montgomery County show that the median household income is $132,450, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 61%, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. Besides Forest Oak Middle, Montgomery County has 210 other public schools.
Harriet R. Tubman Elementary is located about 0.5 miles from Forest Oak Middle. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. In a group of 9 nearby schools with scores, Forest Oak Middle ranks 6th on average proficiency.
The school's federal locale classification is City: Small.
Compared with 2020-21, the school had 92 fewer students in 2024-25.
Discussions about Forest Oak Middle may include science fairs, picture day, and bus routes. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Montgomery County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,065,949
Census ACS
Median income
$132,450
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
61%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
211
159,181 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Montgomery County Public Schools
- Montgomery Blair HighHigh · 3,266 students
- Walter Johnson HighHigh · 3,016 students
- Wheaton HighHigh · 2,794 students
- Gaithersburg HighHigh · 2,441 students
- Seneca Valley HighHigh · 2,409 students
- Bethesda-Chevy Chase HighHigh · 2,377 students
Other schools in Gaithersburg
- Gaithersburg HighHigh · 2,441 students
- Quince Orchard HighHigh · 2,100 students
- Watkins Mill HighHigh · 1,577 students
- Lakelands Park MiddleMiddle · 993 students
- Gaithersburg MiddleMiddle · 869 students
- South Lake ElementaryElementary · 746 students
Other Forest Oak Middle schools
One other US public school is named Forest Oak Middle. Forest Oak Middle is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Forest Oak Middle SchoolFORT WORTH, TX · 1,044 students
Nearby schools
- Harriet R. Tubman Elementary0.5 mi · 571
- South Lake Elementary0.6 mi · 746
- Gaithersburg Middle0.7 mi · 869
- Gaithersburg Elementary0.8 mi · 603
- Flower Hill Elementary0.8 mi · 454
- Strawberry Knoll Elementary0.8 mi · 448
Frequently asked questions
About Forest Oak MiddleWhat is the total enrollment at Forest Oak Middle?
Forest Oak Middle enrolls approximately 828 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Forest Oak Middle serve?
Forest Oak Middle serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many teachers does Forest Oak Middle have?
Forest Oak Middle employs 66 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.6:1.
What is the student diversity at Forest Oak Middle?
Student demographics at Forest Oak Middle are roughly 7% White, 62% Hispanic, 24% Black, 5% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees Forest Oak Middle?
Forest Oak Middle is overseen by Montgomery County Public Schools in Montgomery County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.