Monocacy Elementary

Monocacy Elementary is one of the tiny elementary schools in Dickerson, Maryland, part of Montgomery County Public Schools, with 164 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 481 students per school, that is 66% below typical.

Within Montgomery County Public Schools, which oversees 208 schools and 159,181 students, Monocacy Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Monocacy Elementary logs that 66% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 21% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 4% Asian. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 42%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Monocacy Elementary records 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Roughly 23% of students at Monocacy 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 south of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Monocacy Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 60.5%; this one delivers 57.1%.

Across the wider county, census data for Montgomery County shows median household income runs about $132,450, roughly 61% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Monocacy Elementary is one of 211 public schools in Montgomery County (combined enrollment of about 159,181 students).

The closest other public school is Cabin Branch Elementary, roughly 5.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Monocacy Elementary comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 56.4%.

Monocacy Elementary operates from a small-town location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 12%: 146 students in 2018 compared to 164 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 73% to 66%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 11.1:1 in 2025.

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