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Enrollment
950
Middle
DISTRICT 888 · STATE 764
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MONTGOMERY COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240048090453
Francis Scott Key Middle
910 Schindler Drive, Silver Spring, MD 20903 · (301) 422-5700 · Montgomery County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL950 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 24% of Maryland public middle schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
68 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.5:1 · STATE 14.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
63%
601 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 | 312 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 347 | 37% |
| Grade 8 | 291 | 31% |
Student demographics
66%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
43.2%
MD avg 50.6% . +9.4pp since 2023
Math
20.7%
MD avg 34.8% . +9.1pp 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 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 9 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 9 points.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 43.2% | 20.7% |
| 2023-24 | 33.8% | 11.6% |
% 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
27.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
36.8%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 27% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 37% 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 Francis Scott Key Middle
Francis Scott Key Middle's state test result (27.3% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Francis Scott Key Middle this school | 950 | 63.3% | 27.3% |
| Argyle Middle Silver Spring | 868 | 61.4% | 30.6% |
| Crestwood Middle Frederick | 996 | 67.7% | 32.2% |
| Martin Luther King Jr. Middle Germantown | 841 | 54.1% | 35.7% |
| Roberto W. Clemente Middle Germantown | 888 | 55.0% | 34.1% |
| Briggs Chaney Middle Silver Spring | 858 | 62.0% | 32.5% |
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 Francis Scott Key Middle ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Montgomery County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 27.3% | #164 of 223 | #36 of 40 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 20.7% | #129 of 223 ▲ 48 | #30 of 40 ▲ 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 43.2% | #148 of 223 ▲ 29 | #32 of 40 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 950 | #54 of 230 | #14 of 40 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.9:1 | #91 of 225 | #17 of 40 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.7% | #85 of 225 | #26 of 40 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 63.3% | #63 of 227 | #1 of 40 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.6% | #95 of 123 | #14 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
950
-16 (-2%) vs 2020
+113% since 1990-91, when it was 445
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
was 15.1:1
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 | 950 | 68.2 | 13.9:1 | 63% (601) |
| 2023-24 | 991 | 70.8 | 14.0:1 | 63% (625) |
| 2022-23 | 965 | 65.6 | 14.7:1 | 80% (772) |
| 2020-21 | 966 | 64 | 15.1:1 | 67% (652) |
| 2017-18 | 996 | 65.2 | 15.3:1 | 64% (641) |
| 2015-16 | 979 | 62 | 15.8:1 | 71% (692) |
| 2010-11 | 869 | 52 | 16.7:1 | 58% (501) |
| 2000-01 | 930 | 59 | 15.8:1 | 36% (336) |
| 1990-91 | 445 | 31 | 14.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Francis Scott Key Middle.
Since 2017-18: students down 5% (996 to 950); teachers up 5% (65.2 to 68.2).
About Francis Scott Key Middle
Francis Scott Key Middle is a mid-sized middle school serving families in Silver Spring, Maryland. Its enrollment is 950 students, spread over grades 6 through 8. On average, middle schools in Maryland enroll around 764, and this school is 24% bigger than that mark.
Montgomery County Public Schools has 208 schools and 159,181 students, and Francis Scott Key Middle is one of those schools.
The biggest share of students at Francis Scott Key Middle, 43%, is Hispanic. The next largest groups are 38% Black, 12% Asian, and 6% White. In Montgomery County overall, about 21% of residents are Hispanic. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 66%.
Francis Scott Key Middle has a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.9:1, with 68.2 full-time-equivalent teachers. The 14.3:1 average for middle schools in Maryland is close to this figure. The school has 63% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Across public schools in Montgomery County, the average is 40%.
On the allk12 Grade, Francis Scott Key Middle lands at C-, ahead of 24% of Maryland public middle schools.
Francis Scott Key Middle's actual average proficiency rate across its state test results (27.3%) and its predicted rate (36.8%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of Maryland schools.
In Montgomery County, home to about 1,065,949 people, median household income comes to about $132,450, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 61%, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. There are 211 public schools in the county, enrolling about 159,181, Francis Scott Key Middle among them.
Measured in a straight line, Cresthaven Elementary is about 0.2 miles from Francis Scott Key Middle. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Of 7 schools in the immediate area with test results, Francis Scott Key Middle ranks 7th on average proficiency.
NCES describes the area around Francis Scott Key Middle as Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment has been fairly stable: 966 in 2020-21 and 950 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio dropped from 15.1:1 in 2020-21 to 13.9:1 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 Silver Spring
- Montgomery Blair HighHigh · 3,266 students
- Wheaton HighHigh · 2,794 students
- James Hubert Blake HighHigh · 1,960 students
- John F. Kennedy HighHigh · 1,880 students
- Springbrook HighHigh · 1,838 students
- Takoma Park MiddleMiddle · 1,177 students
Nearby schools
- Cresthaven Elementary0.2 mi · 474
- Roscoe R Nix Elementary0.7 mi · 437
- Pine Crest Elementary0.8 mi · 493
- Burnt Mills Elementary1.0 mi · 747
- Eastern Middle1.2 mi · 963
- Montgomery Blair High1.2 mi · 3,266
Frequently asked questions
About Francis Scott Key MiddleHow large is Francis Scott Key Middle?
Francis Scott Key Middle enrolls approximately 950 students in grades 06-08.
Is Francis Scott Key Middle an elementary, middle, or high school?
Francis Scott Key Middle is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Francis Scott Key Middle?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Francis Scott Key Middle is approximately 13.9:1 (68 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Francis Scott Key Middle?
Student demographics at Francis Scott Key Middle are roughly 6% White, 43% Hispanic, 38% Black, 12% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is Francis Scott Key Middle in?
Francis Scott Key Middle is part of Montgomery County Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.