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Enrollment
603
Elementary
DISTRICT 514 · STATE 481
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MONTGOMERY COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240048000836
Gaithersburg Elementary
35 N Summit Ave, Gaithersburg, MD 20877 · (240) 740-4900 · Montgomery County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL603 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 3% of Maryland public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats 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
9.7:1
63 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
67%
407 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 | 39 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 86 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 85 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 98 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 110 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 101 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 84 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (86) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (84).
Student demographics
40%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
23.9%
MD avg 50.6% . +3.6pp since 2023
Math
18.8%
MD avg 34.8% . -1.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 24 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 19 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 23.9% | 18.8% |
| 2023-24 | 20.3% | 20.5% |
% 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
20.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
34.3%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-13.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 21% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 34% 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 Gaithersburg Elementary
Gaithersburg Elementary's state test result (20.9% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gaithersburg Elementary this school | 603 | 67.5% | 20.9% |
| Rolling Terrace Elementary Takoma Park | 645 | 68.8% | 21.1% |
| Wheaton Woods Elementary Rockville | 556 | 64.7% | 40.2% |
| South Lake Elementary Gaithersburg | 746 | 66.1% | 24.8% |
| Harmony Hills Elementary Silver Spring | 655 | 65.0% | 28.3% |
| Harriet R. Tubman Elementary Gaithersburg | 571 | 61.6% | 27.9% |
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 Gaithersburg Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Montgomery County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 20.9% | #779 of 853 | #131 of 131 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 18.8% | #764 of 853 ▼ 71 | #131 of 131 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 23.9% | #786 of 853 ▼ 11 | #130 of 131 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 603 | #209 of 898 | #36 of 139 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.7:1 | #13 of 857 | #4 of 136 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 40.1% | #627 of 857 | #129 of 136 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 67.5% | #307 of 885 | #9 of 137 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -29.6% | #64 of 551 | #12 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
603
-222 (-27%) vs 2020
-14% since 1990-91, when it was 704
Student : Teacher
9.7:1
was 11.0:1
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 | 603 | 62.5 | 9.7:1 | 67% (407) |
| 2023-24 | 665 | 65.6 | 10.1:1 | 64% (426) |
| 2022-23 | 717 | 68.8 | 10.4:1 | 86% (615) |
| 2020-21 | 825 | 75 | 11.0:1 | 85% (702) |
| 2017-18 | 857 | 71.7 | 11.9:1 | 85% (730) |
| 2015-16 | 864 | 74 | 11.7:1 | 84% (726) |
| 2010-11 | 591 | 47 | 12.6:1 | 76% (447) |
| 2000-01 | 645 | 44 | 14.7:1 | 70% (451) |
| 1990-91 | 704 | 37 | 19.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Gaithersburg Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 30% (857 to 603); teachers down 13% (71.7 to 62.5).
About Gaithersburg Elementary
Students in Gaithersburg, Maryland, attend Gaithersburg Elementary, a medium-sized elementary school. A total of 603 students attend the school, which covers pre-K through 5. The average for elementary schools in Maryland is about 481 students, so this school is 25% bigger than average.
The district for Gaithersburg Elementary is Montgomery County Public Schools, with 208 schools and 159,181 students.
A majority of students at Gaithersburg Elementary, 76%, are Hispanic. The next largest groups are 16% Black, 4% multiracial, and 3% Asian. The school's Hispanic share is 55 points above the 21% share among Montgomery County residents. Gaithersburg Elementary has a diversity index of 40%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
At Gaithersburg Elementary, 62.5 full-time-equivalent teachers work with students, a ratio of about 9.7:1. That ratio is under the 13.8:1 average for elementary schools in Maryland. Students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch make up 67% of enrollment. Among public schools in Montgomery County, the average eligibility rate is 40%.
Measured against Maryland public elementary schools, Gaithersburg Elementary receives an F. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Given its lunch-eligibility share, the predicted average proficiency rate on state tests for Gaithersburg Elementary is 34.3%. It actually posts 20.9%, which is 13.4 points lower and in the bottom 10% of Maryland schools.
In Montgomery County (population about 1,065,949), median household income is about $132,450, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 61%, and about 5% of people live in poverty. A total of 211 public schools operate in Montgomery County, serving about 159,181 students.
The school nearest to Gaithersburg Elementary is Gaithersburg Middle, at a distance of about 0.2 miles. Within five miles of Gaithersburg Elementary, there are at least 8 other public schools. Gaithersburg Elementary is 9th of 9 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
The NCES locale for Gaithersburg Elementary is City: Small, which covers schools inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Gaithersburg Elementary had 825 students in 2020-21 and 603 in 2024-25, a 27% decrease. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 11.0:1 in 2020-21 to 9.7:1 in 2024-25.
Community posts for Gaithersburg Elementary can cover science fairs, picture day, and bus routes. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
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
- Forest Oak MiddleMiddle · 828 students
Nearby schools
- Gaithersburg Middle0.2 mi · 869
- Gaithersburg High0.6 mi · 2,441
- Harriet R. Tubman Elementary0.6 mi · 571
- Forest Oak Middle0.8 mi · 828
- South Lake Elementary0.9 mi · 746
- Washington Grove Elementary1.1 mi · 480
Frequently asked questions
About Gaithersburg ElementaryHow many students attend Gaithersburg Elementary?
Gaithersburg Elementary enrolls approximately 603 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Gaithersburg Elementary serve?
Gaithersburg Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does Gaithersburg Elementary have?
Gaithersburg Elementary employs 63 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 9.7:1.
What is the student diversity at Gaithersburg Elementary?
Student demographics at Gaithersburg Elementary are roughly 2% White, 76% Hispanic, 16% Black, 3% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is Gaithersburg Elementary in?
Gaithersburg Elementary is part of Montgomery County Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.