Highland View Elementary

Highland View Elementary is one of the small elementary campuss in Silver Spring, Maryland, run under Montgomery County Public Schools, with 334 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 31% below the state mean of about 481.

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

On demographics, Highland View Elementary shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (34%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 31% Black, 26% White, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Montgomery County as a whole is about 21% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Highland View Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 51% 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 somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Highland View Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.8%, the actual is 55.0%, a residual of +11.2 points.

In the area at large, census data for Montgomery County shows 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. Highland View Elementary is one of 211 public schools in Montgomery County (combined enrollment of about 159,181 students).

The closest other public school is Silver Spring International Middle, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Highland View Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 40.8%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 16%: 397 students in 2018 compared to 334 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 35% to 26% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 11.1:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.