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Enrollment
756
Elementary
DISTRICT 514 · STATE 481
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MONTGOMERY COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240048000788
JoAnn Leleck at Broad Acres Elementary
13313 Old Columbia Pike, Silver Spring, MD 20904 · (240) 740-1900 · Montgomery County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL756 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 24% of Maryland public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Maryland public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
11.2:1
68 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
69%
523 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 | 78 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 104 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 97 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 112 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 125 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 108 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 132 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (104) is 21% smaller than its 5th grade class (132).
Student demographics
21%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
33.1%
MD avg 50.6% . -1.1pp since 2023
Math
21.3%
MD avg 34.8% . -14.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 33 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 21 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 1 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 14 points.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 33.1% | 21.3% |
| 2023-24 | 34.2% | 35.8% |
% 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
31.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.3%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 31% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 33% 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 JoAnn Leleck at Broad Acres Elementary
JoAnn Leleck at Broad Acres Elementary's state test result (31.1% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| JoAnn Leleck at Broad Acres Elementary this school | 756 | 69.2% | 31.1% |
| Weller Road Elementary Silver Spring | 691 | 65.3% | 34.9% |
| Harmony Hills Elementary Silver Spring | 655 | 65.0% | 28.3% |
| Highlandtown Elementary/Middle #237 Baltimore | 899 | 66.1% | 12.7% |
| Rolling Terrace Elementary Takoma Park | 645 | 68.8% | 21.1% |
| Graceland Park/O'Donnell Heights Elementary/Middle Baltimore | 831 | 62.3% | 24.4% |
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 JoAnn Leleck at Broad Acres Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Montgomery County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 31.1% | #619 of 853 | #117 of 131 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 21.3% | #726 of 853 ▼ 264 | #129 of 131 ▼ 33 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 33.1% | #675 of 853 ▼ 79 | #118 of 131 ▼ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 756 | #57 of 898 | #4 of 139 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.2:1 | #90 of 857 | #29 of 136 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 21.2% | #789 of 857 | #136 of 136 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 69.2% | #290 of 885 | #6 of 137 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.2% | #314 of 551 | #52 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
756
-65 (-8%) vs 2020
+84% since 1990-91, when it was 410
Student : Teacher
11.2:1
was 11.1:1
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 | 756 | 67.7 | 11.2:1 | 69% (523) |
| 2023-24 | 755 | 70.2 | 10.8:1 | 69% (521) |
| 2022-23 | 761 | 70 | 10.9:1 | 90% (683) |
| 2020-21 | 821 | 74 | 11.1:1 | 81% (669) |
| 2017-18 | 851 | 69.1 | 12.3:1 | 91% (776) |
| 2015-16 | 825 | 66 | 12.5:1 | 94% (774) |
| 2010-11 | 615 | 52 | 11.8:1 | 91% (559) |
| 2000-01 | 581 | 48 | 12.1:1 | 87% (504) |
| 1990-91 | 410 | 29 | 14.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for JoAnn Leleck at Broad Acres Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 11% (851 to 756); teachers down 2% (69.1 to 67.7).
About JoAnn Leleck at Broad Acres Elementary
JoAnn Leleck at Broad Acres Elementary is an elementary school with a street address in Silver Spring, Maryland. Grades offered run from pre-K through 5, with 756 students enrolled. The average among elementary schools in Maryland is roughly 481 students; this school is 57% bigger than that.
District-wide, Montgomery County Public Schools has 208 schools and 159,181 students.
JoAnn Leleck at Broad Acres Elementary enrolls a student body that is 88% Hispanic. Other reported shares: 8% Black and 3% Asian. That compares with about 21% Hispanic among all Montgomery County residents. JoAnn Leleck at Broad Acres Elementary has a diversity index of 21%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
The count of teachers at JoAnn Leleck at Broad Acres Elementary is 67.7 full-time equivalents, for a ratio of 11.2:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in Maryland is 13.8:1, higher than at this school. Around 69% of the school's students qualify for free or reduced-price meals. It compares with 40% for public schools in Montgomery County.
JoAnn Leleck at Broad Acres Elementary is graded C- by allk12, scoring above 24% of Maryland public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
A school with JoAnn Leleck at Broad Acres Elementary's lunch-eligibility share in Maryland is predicted to score 33.3%. JoAnn Leleck at Broad Acres Elementary scores 31.1%, 2.2 points below that line.
In Montgomery County (population about 1,065,949), median household income is about $132,450, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 61% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 5%. JoAnn Leleck at Broad Acres Elementary is one of 211 public schools in Montgomery County, which together enroll about 159,181 students.
The closest other public school is Greencastle Elementary, about 0.9 miles away. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On proficiency, JoAnn Leleck at Broad Acres Elementary is behind the 40.0% nearby average, ranking 6th of 9.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
A comparison of 2020-21 and 2024-25 shows enrollment down 8%, from 821 to 756.
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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
Nearby schools
- Greencastle Elementary0.9 mi · 722
- Paint Branch High1.0 mi · 2,038
- Galway Elementary1.0 mi · 695
- Fairland Elementary1.1 mi · 553
- William Tyler Page Elementary1.4 mi · 620
- Benjamin Banneker Middle1.6 mi · 705
Frequently asked questions
About JoAnn Leleck at Broad Acres ElementaryHow many students attend JoAnn Leleck at Broad Acres Elementary?
JoAnn Leleck at Broad Acres Elementary enrolls approximately 756 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does JoAnn Leleck at Broad Acres Elementary serve?
JoAnn Leleck at Broad Acres Elementary serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at JoAnn Leleck at Broad Acres Elementary?
Approximately 11.2:1 students per teacher at JoAnn Leleck at Broad Acres Elementary.
How diverse is JoAnn Leleck at Broad Acres Elementary?
JoAnn Leleck at Broad Acres Elementary reports a student body of 0% White, 88% Hispanic, 8% Black, 3% Asian.
Who oversees JoAnn Leleck at Broad Acres Elementary?
JoAnn Leleck at Broad Acres Elementary is overseen by Montgomery County Public Schools in Montgomery County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.