Gaithersburg Middle

Gaithersburg Middle, a middle-of-the-pack intermediate school in Gaithersburg, Maryland, operated by Montgomery County Public Schools, works with 869 students, covering grades 6 through 8.

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

Demographically, Gaithersburg Middle reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 58% of enrollment. Other groups include 21% Black, 8% White, 7% Asian, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Montgomery County as a whole is about 21% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 75 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 63% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Montgomery County runs at roughly 40%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Gaithersburg Middle tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 36.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 23.8%.

Across the wider county, Montgomery County reports that median household income runs about $132,450, 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), Gaithersburg Middle is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Gaithersburg Elementary, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Gaithersburg Middle comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 28.3%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 5%: 830 students in 2018 compared to 869 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 19% to 8%. Class-load math has fell: from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 in 2025.

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