Meadow Hall Elementary

Meadow Hall Elementary is one of the compact K-5 schools in Rockville, Maryland, run under Montgomery County Public Schools, with 348 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. That puts it 28% smaller than the typical public school in Maryland, which averages around 481 students.

Montgomery County Public Schools runs 208 schools in total, collectively educating 159,181 students. Meadow Hall Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Meadow Hall Elementary lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 63%. The remainder is composed of 16% White, 8% multiracial, 7% Black, 6% Asian. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 21%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Meadow Hall Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 66% of students at Meadow Hall Elementary qualify 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 residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Meadow Hall Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 35.1%; this one delivers 38.6%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Montgomery County indicate 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%. Meadow Hall Elementary is one of 211 public schools in Montgomery County (combined enrollment of about 159,181 students).

Rockville High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Meadow Hall Elementary. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Meadow Hall Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 46.4%.

Meadow Hall Elementary operates from a metropolitan location.

Five-year trend. Meadow Hall Elementary's enrollment has contracted 18% since 2018, when it stood at 423 (now 348). Hispanic enrollment moved from 51% to 63% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 11.2:1 in 2018 to 9.6:1 in 2025.

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