Forest Oak Middle

As a medium-sized junior high in Gaithersburg, Maryland, Forest Oak Middle teaches 828 students from grades 6 through 8, one of the schools within Montgomery County Public Schools.

Montgomery County Public Schools comprises 208 schools with combined enrollment of 159,181 students; Forest Oak Middle is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Forest Oak Middle shows that Hispanic students make up the majority at 62%. The remainder comes out to 24% Black, 7% White, 5% Asian, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 21% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 66 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 58% of students at Forest Oak Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Montgomery County runs at roughly 40%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Forest Oak Middle sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 39.7%; actual is 25.2%, a gap of -14.5 points.

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 roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Montgomery County's 211 public schools (combined enrollment of about 159,181 students), Forest Oak Middle is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Harriet R. Tubman Elementary, roughly 0.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Forest Oak Middle ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 30.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Forest Oak Middle has decreased 4%, going from 861 students in 2018 to 828 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 54% to 62% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 today.

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