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Enrollment
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Elementary
DISTRICT 514 · STATE 481
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MONTGOMERY COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240048001511
Goshen Elementary
8701 Warfield Rd, Gaithersburg, MD 20882 · (240) 740-6170 · Montgomery County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL494 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 67% of Maryland public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats 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
13.4:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
56%
276 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 | 26 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 60 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 85 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 80 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 81 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 92 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 70 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (60) is 14% smaller than its 5th grade class (70).
Student demographics
64%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
52.7%
MD avg 50.6% . -5.1pp since 2023
Math
43.0%
MD avg 34.8% . -1.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 43 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Maryland schools, those numbers are about 51 and 35. Reading and writing scores are down about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 52.7% | 43.0% |
| 2023-24 | 57.8% | 44.8% |
% 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
49.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.2%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 50% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 41% 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 Goshen Elementary
Goshen Elementary's state test result (49.6% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Goshen Elementary this school | 494 | 55.9% | 49.6% |
| Strawberry Knoll Elementary Gaithersburg | 448 | 57.8% | 46.4% |
| Flower Hill Elementary Gaithersburg | 454 | 54.8% | 33.8% |
| Judith A. Resnik Elementary Gaithersburg | 516 | 58.3% | 40.7% |
| Stedwick Elementary Montgomery Village | 492 | 59.6% | 34.3% |
| Washington Grove Elementary Gaithersburg | 480 | 52.7% | 33.0% |
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 Goshen Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Montgomery County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 49.6% | #343 of 853 | #75 of 131 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 43.0% | #393 of 853 ▼ 43 | #84 of 131 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 52.7% | #383 of 853 ▼ 109 | #76 of 131 ▼ 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 494 | #392 of 898 | #75 of 139 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.4:1 | #348 of 857 | #80 of 136 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 64.4% | #307 of 857 | #88 of 136 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 55.9% | #473 of 885 | #47 of 137 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -20.5% | #143 of 551 | #19 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
494
-28 (-5%) vs 2020
-35% since 1990-91, when it was 758
Student : Teacher
13.4:1
was 13.7:1
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 | 494 | 36.8 | 13.4:1 | 56% (276) |
| 2023-24 | 501 | 40.9 | 12.3:1 | 53% (267) |
| 2022-23 | 516 | 38.5 | 13.4:1 | 61% (314) |
| 2020-21 | 522 | 38 | 13.7:1 | 48% (252) |
| 2017-18 | 621 | 42 | 14.8:1 | 43% (264) |
| 2015-16 | 578 | 39 | 14.8:1 | 44% (252) |
| 2010-11 | 590 | 35 | 16.9:1 | 34% (202) |
| 2000-01 | 730 | 37 | 19.7:1 | 11% (78) |
| 1990-91 | 758 | 33 | 23.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Goshen Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 20% (621 to 494); teachers down 12% (42 to 36.8).
About Goshen Elementary
Goshen Elementary is an elementary school in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and it is part of Montgomery County Public Schools. It enrolled 494 students in pre-K through 5 for the 2024-25 school year.
Goshen Elementary belongs to Montgomery County Public Schools, a district of 208 schools and 159,181 students.
Hispanic students make up a majority at Goshen Elementary, at 53%. The remaining students are 24% Black, 10% White, 9% Asian, and 4% multiracial. Census figures show Montgomery County is about 21% Hispanic. Pick two students at random and there is a 64% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Federal staffing data show 36.8 full-time-equivalent teachers at Goshen Elementary and a ratio of 13.4:1. That matches the 13.8:1 average for elementary schools in Maryland fairly closely. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility covers 56% of students. The 40% average for public schools in Montgomery County is 16 points lower.
allk12 grades Goshen Elementary a B+. The grade compares the school only with Maryland public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Goshen Elementary posts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 49.6%, compared with a predicted 41.2%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Maryland schools on BeatsExpectations.
In the county around the school, Montgomery County, the median household income is $132,450, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 61% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 5%. Montgomery County is home to 211 public schools and about 159,181 public school students.
Judith A. Resnik Elementary is located about 1.7 miles from Goshen Elementary. The five-mile area around Goshen Elementary holds at least 8 other public schools. Among 9 nearby schools that report test results, Goshen Elementary ranks 2nd on proficiency.
By NCES locale, the school is Suburb: Large, or in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Compared with 2020-21, the school had 28 fewer students in 2024-25.
Topics for discussion here include school events, clubs, and volunteer needs. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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
Other Goshen Elementary schools
4 other US public schools in 5 states are named Goshen Elementary. Goshen Elementary is the 2nd largest of the 5.
- Goshen ElementaryVisalia, CA · 549 students
- Goshen Elementary SchoolGoshen, AL · 446 students
- Goshen Elementary SchoolAugusta, GA · 437 students
- Goshen ElementaryEdwardsville, IL · 346 students
Nearby schools
- Judith A. Resnik Elementary1.7 mi · 516
- Whetstone Elementary1.8 mi · 711
- Strawberry Knoll Elementary2.0 mi · 448
- Watkins Mill High2.1 mi · 1,577
- Montgomery Village Middle2.2 mi · 780
- Stedwick Elementary2.2 mi · 492
Frequently asked questions
About Goshen ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Goshen Elementary?
Goshen Elementary enrolls approximately 494 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Goshen Elementary serve?
Goshen Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Goshen Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Goshen Elementary is approximately 13.4:1 (37 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Goshen Elementary?
Student demographics at Goshen Elementary are roughly 10% White, 53% Hispanic, 24% Black, 9% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is Goshen Elementary in?
Goshen Elementary is part of Montgomery County Public Schools.
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