Enrollment
314
Elementary
DISTRICT 514 · STATE 481
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MONTGOMERY COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240048000843
Germantown Elementary
19110 Liberty Mill Rd, Germantown, MD 20874 · (240) 740-6490 · Montgomery County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL314 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 37% of Maryland public elementary schools
- B-Test 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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
9.7:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
52%
164 students
DISTRICT 40% · STATE 54%
Community
0
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 | 26 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 46 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 48 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 41 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 57 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 42 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 54 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (46) is 15% smaller than its 5th grade class (54).
Student demographics
74%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
52.4%
MD avg 50.6% . +16.1pp since 2023
Math
41.8%
MD avg 34.8% . +7.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 42 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 16 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 52.4% | 41.8% |
| 2023-24 | 36.3% | 34.4% |
% 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
41.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.3%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% 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 Germantown Elementary
Germantown Elementary's state test result (41.2% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Germantown Elementary this school | 314 | 52.2% | 41.2% |
| Guilford Elementary Columbia | 437 | 46.5% | 40.3% |
| Fields Road Elementary Gaithersburg | 453 | 51.0% | 54.1% |
| College Gardens Elementary Rockville | 506 | 43.3% | 63.6% |
| Great Seneca Creek Elementary Germantown | 487 | 54.2% | 42.4% |
| Hebron - Harman Elementary Hanover | 459 | 61.7% | 30.8% |
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 Germantown Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Montgomery County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 41.2% | #463 of 853 | #93 of 131 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 41.8% | #405 of 853 ▲ 80 | #86 of 131 ▲ 14 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 52.4% | #390 of 853 ▲ 177 | #79 of 131 ▲ 28 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 314 | #734 of 898 | #131 of 139 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.7:1 | #14 of 857 | #5 of 136 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 74.5% | #45 of 857 | #25 of 136 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 52.2% | #503 of 885 | #55 of 137 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.2% | #506 of 551 | #90 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
314
+13 (+4%) vs 2020
-19% since 1990-91, when it was 390
Student : Teacher
9.7:1
was 10.4:1
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 | 314 | 32.3 | 9.7:1 | 52% (164) |
| 2023-24 | 318 | 28.6 | 11.1:1 | 50% (160) |
| 2022-23 | 294 | 30.1 | 9.8:1 | 54% (158) |
| 2020-21 | 301 | 29 | 10.4:1 | 39% (116) |
| 2017-18 | 321 | 30.7 | 10.5:1 | 34% (110) |
| 2015-16 | 318 | 25 | 12.7:1 | 36% (113) |
| 2010-11 | 289 | 21 | 13.8:1 | 30% (86) |
| 2000-01 | 505 | 29 | 17.4:1 | 22% (111) |
| 1990-91 | 390 | 21 | 18.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Germantown Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 2% (321 to 314); teachers up 5% (30.7 to 32.3).
About Germantown Elementary
This page covers Germantown Elementary, a small elementary school in Germantown, Maryland. It teaches 314 students in pre-K through 5. By comparison, elementary schools in Maryland enroll about 481 students on average.
Germantown Elementary falls under Montgomery County Public Schools, which has 208 schools enrolling 159,181 students.
The largest group at Germantown Elementary is Black students, at 36%. The school is also 26% Hispanic, 20% Asian, 13% White, and 4% multiracial. That is higher than the 19% Black share among all Montgomery County residents. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 74%.
There are about 9.7 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at Germantown Elementary, which has 32.3. Elementary schools in Maryland average 13.8:1, 4.1 more students per teacher than here. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at Germantown Elementary is about 52%. Public schools in Montgomery County average 40%.
Germantown Elementary earns a C+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 37% of Maryland public elementary schools.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Germantown Elementary would score about 43.3%. It scores 41.2%, 2.1 points below that figure.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Montgomery County show that 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 counts 211 public schools with about 159,181 students.
Measured in a straight line, Kingsview Middle is about 0.5 miles from Germantown Elementary. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Germantown Elementary's average proficiency of 41.2% compares with 41.0% for its nearest scored neighbors.
Locale data from NCES put Germantown Elementary in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more (Suburb: Large).
Enrollment rose 4% over 4 years, reaching 314 in 2024-25.
Use the discussion section to ask about homework, tutoring, and testing dates at Germantown Elementary. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
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
Other Germantown Elementary schools
4 other US public schools in 4 states are named Germantown Elementary. Germantown Elementary is the 3rd largest of the 5.
- Germantown ElementaryAnnapolis, MD · 467 students
- Germantown ElementaryGermantown, TN · 523 students
- GERMANTOWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLGERMANTOWN, NY · 282 students
- Germantown Elementary SchoolGermantown, IL · 258 students
Nearby schools
- Kingsview Middle0.5 mi · 908
- Dr. Ronald E. McNair Elementary0.7 mi · 673
- Seneca Valley High0.8 mi · 2,409
- Martin Luther King Jr. Middle0.9 mi · 841
- S. Christa McAuliffe Elementary0.9 mi · 467
- Lake Seneca Elementary1.0 mi · 437
Frequently asked questions
About Germantown ElementaryHow large is Germantown Elementary?
Germantown Elementary enrolls approximately 314 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Germantown Elementary serve?
Germantown Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Germantown Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Germantown Elementary is approximately 9.7:1 (32 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Germantown Elementary?
Student demographics at Germantown Elementary are roughly 13% White, 26% Hispanic, 36% Black, 20% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is Germantown Elementary in?
Germantown Elementary is part of Montgomery County Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.