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Alumni: what's one memory from Harmony Hills Elementary that still sticks with you?
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Enrollment
655
Elementary
DISTRICT 514 · STATE 481
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MONTGOMERY COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240048000848
Harmony Hills Elementary
13407 Lydia St, Silver Spring, MD 20906 · (240) 740-0780 · Montgomery County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL655 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 11% of Maryland public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
10.8:1
60 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
65%
426 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 | 41 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 93 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 110 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 117 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 110 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 85 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 99 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (93) is 6% smaller than its 5th grade class (99).
Student demographics
27%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
24.4%
MD avg 50.6% . -6.2pp since 2023
Math
33.3%
MD avg 34.8% . +8.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 24 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 33 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 24.4% | 33.3% |
| 2023-24 | 30.6% | 25.0% |
% 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
28.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
35.7%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 28% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 36% 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 Harmony Hills Elementary
Harmony Hills Elementary's state test result (28.3% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harmony Hills Elementary this school | 655 | 65.0% | 28.3% |
| Weller Road Elementary Silver Spring | 691 | 65.3% | 34.9% |
| Rolling Terrace Elementary Takoma Park | 645 | 68.8% | 21.1% |
| JoAnn Leleck at Broad Acres Elementary Silver Spring | 756 | 69.2% | 31.1% |
| Gaithersburg Elementary Gaithersburg | 603 | 67.5% | 20.9% |
| Graceland Park/O'Donnell Heights Elementary/Middle Baltimore | 831 | 62.3% | 24.4% |
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 Harmony Hills Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Montgomery County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 28.3% | #666 of 853 | #123 of 131 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 33.3% | #543 of 853 ▲ 73 | #108 of 131 ▲ 12 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 24.4% | #780 of 853 ▼ 130 | #129 of 131 ▼ 8 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 655 | #139 of 898 | #21 of 139 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.8:1 | #70 of 857 | #22 of 136 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 26.6% | #754 of 857 | #134 of 136 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 65.0% | #341 of 885 | #13 of 137 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.9% | #322 of 551 | #55 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
655
-35 (-5%) vs 2020
+63% since 1990-91, when it was 402
Student : Teacher
10.8:1
was 11.3:1
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 | 655 | 60.4 | 10.8:1 | 65% (426) |
| 2023-24 | 693 | 58.4 | 11.9:1 | 64% (443) |
| 2022-23 | 699 | 59.2 | 11.8:1 | 88% (615) |
| 2020-21 | 690 | 61 | 11.3:1 | 82% (565) |
| 2017-18 | 735 | 59.2 | 12.4:1 | 85% (626) |
| 2015-16 | 743 | 60 | 12.4:1 | 87% (649) |
| 2010-11 | 566 | 48 | 11.8:1 | 87% (494) |
| 2000-01 | 485 | 39 | 12.4:1 | 78% (376) |
| 1990-91 | 402 | 19 | 21.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Harmony Hills Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 11% (735 to 655); teachers up 2% (59.2 to 60.4).
About Harmony Hills Elementary
Harmony Hills Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school that serves part of Silver Spring, Maryland. Federal data show 655 students enrolled in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25. On average, elementary schools in Maryland enroll around 481, and this school is 36% above that mark.
Montgomery County Public Schools has 159,181 students in 208 schools, and Harmony Hills Elementary is one of those schools.
Harmony Hills Elementary is 85% Hispanic by enrollment. The remaining shares are 10% Black, 2% White, and 2% Asian. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Montgomery County's population at about 21%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Harmony Hills Elementary scores 27%.
Its ratio of 10.8:1 is based on 60.4 full-time-equivalent teachers. Elementary schools in Maryland have an average ratio of 13.8:1. In all, 65% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Montgomery County average 40%.
On the allk12 Grade, Harmony Hills Elementary lands at D, ahead of 11% of Maryland public elementary schools.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 35.7% for Harmony Hills Elementary. The school posts 28.3%, 7.4 points below the prediction.
Montgomery County is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $132,450, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 61%, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. There are 211 public schools in the county, enrolling about 159,181, Harmony Hills Elementary among them.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Georgian Forest Elementary, is about 0.8 miles. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among the 9 closest schools with test data, this one included, Harmony Hills Elementary ranks 7th on average proficiency.
In the federal locale system, Harmony Hills Elementary is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 5% decrease, from 690 to 655.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about fundraisers, report cards, and school supplies at Harmony Hills Elementary. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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 Silver Spring
- Montgomery Blair HighHigh · 3,266 students
- Wheaton HighHigh · 2,794 students
- James Hubert Blake HighHigh · 1,960 students
- John F. Kennedy HighHigh · 1,880 students
- Springbrook HighHigh · 1,838 students
- Takoma Park MiddleMiddle · 1,177 students
Other Harmony Hills Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Harmony Hills Elementary. Harmony Hills Elementary is the largest of the 2.
- Harmony Hills Elementary SchoolSAN ANTONIO, TX · 382 students
Nearby schools
- Georgian Forest Elementary0.8 mi · 600
- A. Mario Loiederman Middle0.8 mi · 978
- Strathmore Elementary0.9 mi · 464
- Weller Road Elementary0.9 mi · 691
- Wheaton Woods Elementary1.0 mi · 556
- Brookhaven Elementary1.0 mi · 436
Frequently asked questions
About Harmony Hills ElementaryHow many students attend Harmony Hills Elementary?
Harmony Hills Elementary enrolls approximately 655 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Harmony Hills Elementary serve?
Harmony Hills Elementary serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Harmony Hills Elementary?
Approximately 10.8:1 students per teacher at Harmony Hills Elementary.
How diverse is Harmony Hills Elementary?
Harmony Hills Elementary reports a student body of 2% White, 85% Hispanic, 10% Black, 2% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Harmony Hills Elementary?
Harmony Hills Elementary is overseen by Montgomery County Public Schools in Montgomery County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.