Goshen Elementary

Goshen Elementary is an average-sized elementary school in Gaithersburg, Maryland, run under Montgomery County Public Schools. The school caters to 494 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Montgomery County Public Schools comprises 208 schools with combined enrollment of 159,181 students; Goshen Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Goshen Elementary logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 24% Black, 10% White, 9% Asian, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Montgomery County as a whole is about 21% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Goshen Elementary has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.4:1. The state averages about 13.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 56% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. 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), Goshen Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 41.2%; this one delivers 49.6%.

In the surrounding community, Montgomery County reports that median household income runs about $132,450, roughly 61% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Goshen Elementary is one of 211 public schools in Montgomery County (combined enrollment of about 159,181 students).

Nearest neighbor: Judith A. Resnik Elementary, around 1.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Goshen Elementary. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Goshen Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 36.8%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 20%: 621 students in 2018 compared to 494 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 38% to 53%. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 in 2025.

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