Gaithersburg Elementary

Gaithersburg Elementary operates as a moderately sized K-5 school in Gaithersburg, Maryland, one of the schools within Montgomery County Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 603 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Maryland's public schools average about 481 students each, so Gaithersburg Elementary sits 25% bigger than that benchmark.

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

Looking at the student body, Gaithersburg Elementary reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 76%. Other groups include 16% Black, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Montgomery County as a whole is about 21% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 63 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Gaithersburg Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 67% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Montgomery County runs at roughly 40%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Gaithersburg Elementary falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 34.3%; this one comes in at 20.9%, -13.4 points off the demographic line.

In the broader community, census data for Montgomery County shows median household income runs about $132,450, about 61% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Montgomery County's 211 public schools (combined enrollment of about 159,181 students), Gaithersburg Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Gaithersburg Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Gaithersburg Elementary comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 28.7%.

Gaithersburg Elementary operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. Gaithersburg Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 30% since 2018, when it stood at 857 (now 603). Class-load math has pulled in: from 11.9:1 in 2018 to 9.7:1 in 2025.

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