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What's the vibe like in the hallways at Jackson Road Elementary right now?
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Enrollment
623
Elementary
DISTRICT 514 · STATE 481
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MONTGOMERY COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240048000854
Jackson Road Elementary
900 Jackson Rd, Silver Spring, MD 20904 · (240) 740-0800 · Montgomery County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL623 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
11.3:1
55 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
59%
370 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 | 66 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 83 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 86 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 103 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 91 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 92 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 102 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (83) is 19% smaller than its 5th grade class (102).
Student demographics
63%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
30.3%
MD avg 50.6% . -5.1pp since 2023
Math
25.4%
MD avg 34.8% . -3.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 30 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 25 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 30.3% | 25.4% |
| 2023-24 | 35.4% | 28.4% |
% 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
29.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.1%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 30% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 39% 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 Jackson Road Elementary
Jackson Road Elementary's state test result (29.9% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jackson Road Elementary this school | 623 | 59.4% | 29.9% |
| Laurel Woods Elementary Laurel | 625 | 58.4% | 38.1% |
| Galway Elementary Silver Spring | 695 | 58.6% | 46.5% |
| Waters Landing Elementary Germantown | 735 | 56.3% | 33.9% |
| Reisterstown Elementary Reisterstown | 518 | 61.6% | 24.7% |
| Fairland Elementary Silver Spring | 553 | 58.6% | 47.0% |
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 Jackson Road Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Montgomery County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 29.9% | #642 of 853 | #119 of 131 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 25.4% | #652 of 853 ▼ 83 | #121 of 131 ▼ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 30.3% | #717 of 853 ▼ 138 | #124 of 131 ▼ 15 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 623 | #182 of 898 | #29 of 139 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.3:1 | #103 of 857 | #35 of 136 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.2% | #326 of 857 | #94 of 136 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 59.4% | #418 of 885 | #31 of 137 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.9% | #368 of 551 | #62 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
623
-73 (-10%) vs 2020
+58% since 1990-91, when it was 395
Student : Teacher
11.3:1
was 11.2:1
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 | 623 | 55.3 | 11.3:1 | 59% (370) |
| 2023-24 | 647 | 58.1 | 11.1:1 | 61% (394) |
| 2022-23 | 661 | 58.3 | 11.3:1 | 75% (499) |
| 2020-21 | 696 | 62 | 11.2:1 | 72% (498) |
| 2017-18 | 684 | 55.9 | 12.2:1 | 76% (519) |
| 2015-16 | 691 | 55 | 12.6:1 | 78% (542) |
| 2010-11 | 615 | 50 | 12.3:1 | 67% (413) |
| 2000-01 | 501 | 33 | 15.2:1 | 45% (223) |
| 1990-91 | 395 | 23 | 17.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Jackson Road Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 9% (684 to 623); teachers down 1% (55.9 to 55.3).
About Jackson Road Elementary
Jackson Road Elementary is a medium-sized elementary school that serves part of Silver Spring, Maryland. The school's 623 students are in pre-K through 5. Statewide, elementary schools in Maryland average about 481 students each.
Montgomery County Public Schools is made up of 208 schools with 159,181 students in all.
Enrollment at Jackson Road Elementary is mixed, with Black students the largest group at 46%. The school is also 39% Hispanic, 6% White, 5% Asian, and 4% multiracial. That is higher than the 19% Black share among all Montgomery County residents. The chance that two students picked at random at Jackson Road Elementary belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 63%.
The school reports 55.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 11.3 students per teacher. For comparison, elementary schools in Maryland average 13.8:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility covers 59% of students. It compares with 40% for public schools in Montgomery County.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Jackson Road Elementary is 9.2 points below the average proficiency rate on state tests predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 29.9% actual, 39.1% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Maryland.
Montgomery County census figures show that median household income is about $132,450, 61% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Jackson Road Elementary is among the 211 public schools in Montgomery County.
The shortest distance from Jackson Road Elementary to another public school is about 0.2 miles, to White Oak Middle. The five-mile area around Jackson Road Elementary holds at least 8 other public schools. Jackson Road Elementary comes in 7th of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
Locale: Suburb: Large. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Jackson Road Elementary saw enrollment fall 10% between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
The Jackson Road Elementary community page is open for posts about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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 Jackson Road Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Jackson Road Elementary. Jackson Road Elementary is the largest of the 2.
- Jackson Road Elementary SchoolGriffin, GA · 344 students
Nearby schools
- White Oak Middle0.2 mi · 808
- Springbrook High0.7 mi · 1,838
- Cannon Road Elementary0.9 mi · 388
- Burnt Mills Elementary1.3 mi · 747
- William Tyler Page Elementary1.4 mi · 620
- Kemp Mill Elementary1.6 mi · 412
Frequently asked questions
About Jackson Road ElementaryHow large is Jackson Road Elementary?
Jackson Road Elementary enrolls approximately 623 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Jackson Road Elementary serve?
Jackson Road Elementary serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Jackson Road Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Jackson Road Elementary is approximately 11.3:1 (55 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Jackson Road Elementary?
At Jackson Road Elementary, the student body is approximately 6% White, 39% Hispanic, 46% Black, 5% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is Jackson Road Elementary public or private?
Jackson Road Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Montgomery County Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.