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What do you wish you knew before starting at Fox Chapel Elementary?
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Enrollment
617
Elementary
DISTRICT 514 · STATE 481
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MONTGOMERY COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240048000834
Fox Chapel Elementary
19315 Archdale Rd, Germantown, MD 20876 · (240) 740-0680 · Montgomery County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL617 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 64% of Maryland public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.6:1
46 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
61%
377 students
DISTRICT 40% · STATE 54%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 25 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 81 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 75 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 81 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 92 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 118 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 145 | 24% |
This year's kindergarten class (81) is 44% smaller than its 5th grade class (145).
Student demographics
69%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
43.4%
MD avg 50.6% . -10.1pp since 2023
Math
39.8%
MD avg 34.8% . -10.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 40 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Maryland schools, those numbers are about 51 and 35. Reading and writing scores are down about 10 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 10 points.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 43.4% | 39.8% |
| 2023-24 | 53.5% | 50.0% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
46.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
38.1%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 38% typical for Maryland schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Maryland's top nor bottom 10%.
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 Fox Chapel Elementary
Fox Chapel Elementary's state test result (46.7% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fox Chapel Elementary this school | 617 | 61.1% | 46.7% |
| Glenallan Elementary Silver Spring | 679 | 61.7% | 43.7% |
| Judith A. Resnik Elementary Gaithersburg | 516 | 58.3% | 40.7% |
| Rosemont Elementary Gaithersburg | 564 | 59.0% | 43.1% |
| Ducketts Lane Elementary Elkridge | 573 | 60.6% | 44.6% |
| Deep Run Elementary Elkridge | 638 | 54.1% | 45.6% |
Matched among Maryland elementary 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 Fox Chapel Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Montgomery County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 46.7% | #379 of 853 | #80 of 131 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 39.8% | #434 of 853 ▼ 149 | #89 of 131 ▼ 17 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 43.4% | #510 of 853 ▼ 193 | #96 of 131 ▼ 22 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 617 | #188 of 898 | #32 of 139 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.6:1 | #377 of 857 | #86 of 136 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.0% | #208 of 857 | #64 of 136 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 61.1% | #384 of 885 | #24 of 137 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -0.3% | #546 of 551 | #97 of 97 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
617
+28 (+5%) vs 2020
+46% since 1990-91, when it was 424
Student : Teacher
13.6:1
was 14.4:1
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 | 617 | 45.5 | 13.6:1 | 61% (377) |
| 2023-24 | 598 | 46 | 13.0:1 | 58% (349) |
| 2022-23 | 593 | 40.6 | 14.6:1 | 63% (376) |
| 2020-21 | 589 | 41 | 14.4:1 | 54% (319) |
| 2017-18 | 619 | 41.5 | 14.9:1 | 58% (358) |
| 2015-16 | 635 | 41 | 15.5:1 | 53% (338) |
| 2010-11 | 593 | 41 | 14.5:1 | 54% (321) |
| 2000-01 | 558 | 32 | 17.4:1 | 33% (186) |
| 1990-91 | 424 | 25 | 17.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Fox Chapel Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students unchanged (619 to 617); teachers up 10% (41.5 to 45.5).
About Fox Chapel Elementary
Fox Chapel Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school in Maryland, located in Germantown. The school counted 617 students in 2024-25, covering pre-K through 5. The school is 28% bigger than the average for elementary schools in Maryland.
Montgomery County Public Schools is the local district for Fox Chapel Elementary. It runs 208 schools with 159,181 students.
Hispanic students make up 47% of enrollment at Fox Chapel Elementary, the largest share of any group. The rest of enrollment is 24% Black, 14% Asian, 11% White, and 4% multiracial. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Montgomery County's population at about 21%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 69, compared with 70 nationally.
Based on 45.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, Fox Chapel Elementary has a ratio of 13.6:1. The average for elementary schools in Maryland is about 13.8:1. Income data for the school show 61% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Across public schools in Montgomery County, the average is 40%.
Fox Chapel Elementary earns a B on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 64% of Maryland public elementary schools.
Test results at Fox Chapel Elementary are 8.6 points above what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (46.7% actual, 38.1% predicted).
In Montgomery County, median household income comes to about $132,450, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 61% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 5%. Montgomery County has 211 public schools with about 159,181 students, including Fox Chapel Elementary.
Of the public schools around it, Fox Chapel Elementary is closest to Roberto W. Clemente Middle, about 0.6 miles away. Fox Chapel Elementary has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Fox Chapel Elementary ranks 1st of 9 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 46.7% against a local average of 31.8%.
The school's federal locale classification is Suburb: Large.
The school grew from 589 students in 2020-21 to 617 in 2024-25.
Parents, students, and staff can share information on pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback here. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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 Germantown
- Seneca Valley HighHigh · 2,409 students
- Northwest HighHigh · 2,300 students
- Kingsview MiddleMiddle · 908 students
- Roberto W. Clemente MiddleMiddle · 888 students
- Martin Luther King Jr. MiddleMiddle · 841 students
- Neelsville MiddleMiddle · 781 students
Nearby schools
- Roberto W. Clemente Middle0.6 mi · 888
- S. Christa McAuliffe Elementary1.0 mi · 467
- Seneca Valley High1.2 mi · 2,409
- Captain James E. Daly Elementary1.3 mi · 472
- Clopper Mill Elementary1.4 mi · 458
- Neelsville Middle1.5 mi · 781
Frequently asked questions
About Fox Chapel ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Fox Chapel Elementary?
Fox Chapel Elementary enrolls approximately 617 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Fox Chapel Elementary serve?
Fox Chapel Elementary serves grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Fox Chapel Elementary have?
Fox Chapel Elementary employs 46 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.6:1.
How diverse is Fox Chapel Elementary?
Fox Chapel Elementary reports a student body of 11% White, 47% Hispanic, 24% Black, 14% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is Fox Chapel Elementary in?
Fox Chapel Elementary is part of Montgomery County Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.