Maryvale Elementary

Maryvale Elementary is an average-sized elementary school in Rockville, Maryland, run under Montgomery County Public Schools. The school serves 617 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Maryland's public schools average about 481 students each, so Maryvale Elementary sits 28% larger than that benchmark.

Montgomery County Public Schools comprises 208 schools with combined enrollment of 159,181 students; Maryvale Elementary is among them.

Looking at the student body, Maryvale Elementary lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 37%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 25% Black, 20% White, 9% multiracial, 9% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 21%.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 49% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Montgomery County's rate of about 40%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Maryvale Elementary sits in the top 10% of Maryland schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 45.0%; actual is 61.5%, +16.5 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the area at large, Montgomery County reports that median household income runs about $132,450, about 61% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Montgomery County's 211 public schools (combined enrollment of about 159,181 students), Maryvale Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Carl Sandburg Center, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Maryvale Elementary comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 47.5%.

Maryvale Elementary operates from an urban location.

Over the past 7-year window. Maryvale Elementary's enrollment has edged down 5% since 2018, when it stood at 650 (now 617). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 today.

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