Herbert Hoover Middle

Herbert Hoover Middle is one of the mid-sized middle-grades schools in Potomac, Maryland, run under Montgomery County Public Schools, with 930 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. That puts it 22% larger than the typical public school in Maryland, which averages around 764 students.

Across the 208 schools in Montgomery County Public Schools (159,181 students total), Herbert Hoover Middle accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Herbert Hoover Middle records that 38% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 36% White, 9% Hispanic, 9% Black, 8% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Asian than the county at large, where the share is closer to 15%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Herbert Hoover Middle has 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 14.3:1 average. An estimated 12% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 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 somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Herbert Hoover Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 67.2%, the actual is 70.9%, a residual of +3.7 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Montgomery County put median household income runs about $132,450, roughly 61% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Montgomery County's 211 public schools (combined enrollment of about 159,181 students), Herbert Hoover Middle is one campus in the mix.

Winston Churchill High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Herbert Hoover Middle comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 75.5%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 8%: 1,006 students in 2018 compared to 930 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 48% to 36% over that span.

On this page, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.