Harriet R. Tubman Elementary

As a moderately sized primary school in Gaithersburg, Maryland, Harriet R. Tubman Elementary caters to 571 students from grades pre-K through 5, part of Montgomery County Public Schools.

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

On the student-mix side, Harriet R. Tubman Elementary records that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 68% of enrollment. Other groups include 19% Black, 4% White, 4% Asian, 4% multiracial. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 21%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Roughly 62% of students at Harriet R. Tubman Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Montgomery County runs at roughly 40%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Harriet R. Tubman Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 37.7%; this one delivers 27.9%.

Across the wider county, Montgomery County reports that median household earnings sit near $132,450, about 61% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Montgomery County's 211 public schools (combined enrollment of about 159,181 students), Harriet R. Tubman Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Gaithersburg Middle, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Harriet R. Tubman Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Harriet R. Tubman Elementary at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 28.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.