Harmony Hills Elementary

Located at 13407 Lydia St, in Silver Spring, Maryland, Harmony Hills Elementary is a mid-tier elementary campus that works with 655 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under Montgomery County Public Schools. That puts it 36% above the typical public school in Maryland, which averages around 481 students.

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

In terms of who attends, Harmony Hills Elementary records that nearly all students (85%) are Hispanic. Beyond that, the school shows 10% Black, 2% White, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 21% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 60 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Around 65% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, 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.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Harmony Hills Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.7%, the actual is 28.3%, a residual of -7.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Montgomery County) shows that median household earnings sit near $132,450, roughly 61% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Montgomery County runs 211 public schools (combined enrollment of about 159,181 students), of which Harmony Hills Elementary is one.

Georgian Forest Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Harmony Hills Elementary comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 35.3%.

Harmony Hills Elementary operates from an outer-ring location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 11%: 735 students in 2018 compared to 655 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 77% to 85% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 12.4:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 in 2025.

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