Jackson Road Elementary

Located at 900 Jackson Rd, in Silver Spring, Maryland, Jackson Road Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus that serves 623 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under Montgomery County Public Schools. By comparison, Maryland's public schools average about 481 students each, so Jackson Road Elementary sits 30% above that benchmark.

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

In terms of who attends, Jackson Road Elementary reports that 46% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 39% Hispanic, 6% White, 5% Asian, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Montgomery County as a whole is about 19% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Jackson Road Elementary shows 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Jackson Road Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. About 59% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Montgomery County (around 40%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Jackson Road Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 39.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 29.9%.

In the surrounding community, Montgomery County reports that median household earnings sit near $132,450, 61% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Jackson Road Elementary is one of 211 public schools in Montgomery County (combined enrollment of about 159,181 students).

White Oak Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Jackson Road Elementary. On composite proficiency, Jackson Road Elementary comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 40.1%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Jackson Road Elementary has declined 9%, going from 684 students in 2018 to 623 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share shrank from 52% to 46%.

On the community side, members of the Jackson Road Elementary community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.