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Which teacher or staff member at Neelsville Middle deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
781
Middle
DISTRICT 888 · STATE 764
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MONTGOMERY COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240048000759
Neelsville Middle
11700 Neelsville Church Rd, Germantown, MD 20876 · (240) 740-6630 · Montgomery County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL781 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 17% of Maryland public middle schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats 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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
54 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.5:1 · STATE 14.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
55%
430 students
DISTRICT 40% · STATE 54%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 276 | 35% |
| Grade 7 | 239 | 31% |
| Grade 8 | 266 | 34% |
Student demographics
69%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
41.8%
MD avg 50.6% . +5.9pp since 2023
Math
18.5%
MD avg 34.8% . +4.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 42 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 19 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Maryland schools, those numbers are about 51 and 35. Reading and writing scores are up about 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 41.8% | 18.5% |
| 2023-24 | 35.9% | 14.5% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of MD schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
27.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.6%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-14.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 28% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 42% typical for Maryland schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Neelsville Middle
Neelsville Middle's state test result (27.7% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neelsville Middle this school | 781 | 55.1% | 27.7% |
| Roberto W. Clemente Middle Germantown | 888 | 55.0% | 34.1% |
| Martin Luther King Jr. Middle Germantown | 841 | 54.1% | 35.7% |
| Eastern Middle Silver Spring | 963 | 52.4% | 43.4% |
| Francis Scott Key Middle Silver Spring | 950 | 63.3% | 27.3% |
| Argyle Middle Silver Spring | 868 | 61.4% | 30.6% |
Matched among Maryland middle 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 Neelsville Middle ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Montgomery County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 27.7% | #159 of 223 | #33 of 40 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 18.5% | #143 of 223 ▲ 9 | #35 of 40 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 41.8% | #158 of 223 ▲ 9 | #34 of 40 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 781 | #112 of 230 | #30 of 40 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.4:1 | #109 of 225 | #20 of 40 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.0% | #67 of 225 | #23 of 40 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 55.1% | #98 of 227 | #11 of 40 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.3% | #28 of 123 | #6 of 21 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
781
-61 (-7%) vs 2020
-9% since 2000-01, when it was 855
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
was 13.8:1
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 | 781 | 54.2 | 14.4:1 | 55% (430) |
| 2023-24 | 782 | 57.8 | 13.5:1 | 57% (448) |
| 2022-23 | 815 | 56 | 14.6:1 | 71% (581) |
| 2020-21 | 842 | 61 | 13.8:1 | 65% (550) |
| 2017-18 | 922 | 65.8 | 14.0:1 | 64% (594) |
| 2015-16 | 911 | 63 | 14.5:1 | 68% (617) |
| 2010-11 | 881 | 54 | 16.3:1 | 56% (492) |
| 2000-01 | 855 | 51 | 16.8:1 | 26% (225) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Neelsville Middle.
Since 2017-18: students down 15% (922 to 781); teachers down 18% (65.8 to 54.2).
About Neelsville Middle
Among the schools in Germantown, Maryland, is Neelsville Middle, a medium-sized middle school. Classes run from 6 through 8, and the school has 781 students.
Montgomery County Public Schools counts 208 schools and 159,181 students, including Neelsville Middle.
By race and ethnicity, the largest group at Neelsville Middle is Hispanic (44%). Other students are 29% Black, 16% Asian, 7% White, and 4% multiracial. That is higher than the 21% Hispanic share among all Montgomery County residents. By the diversity index, Neelsville Middle comes in at 69%.
Neelsville Middle operates with 54.2 full-time-equivalent teachers, a ratio of about 14.4:1. Middle schools in Maryland average about 14.3:1, a similar figure. Neelsville Middle reports 55% of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals. The 40% average for public schools in Montgomery County is 15 points lower.
The allk12 Grade for Neelsville Middle is C-. Compared with Maryland public middle schools, the school scored higher than 17% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
On BeatsExpectations, which compares test results with what a school's student poverty level would predict, Neelsville Middle ranks in the bottom 10% in Maryland. Its average proficiency rate on state tests is 27.7%, against a prediction of 41.6%.
Neelsville Middle is located in Montgomery County, where median household income is about $132,450, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 61%, and about 5% of people live in poverty. Neelsville Middle is one of 211 public schools in Montgomery County, which together enroll about 159,181 students.
The shortest distance from Neelsville Middle to another public school is about 0.5 miles, to Captain James E. Daly Elementary. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Of the 9 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Neelsville Middle is 7th on average proficiency.
Neelsville Middle is coded as Suburb: Large in federal locale data.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count dropped from 842 to 781.
Topics for discussion here include school safety, transportation, and start times. 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 Germantown
- Seneca Valley HighHigh · 2,409 students
- Northwest HighHigh · 2,300 students
- Kingsview MiddleMiddle · 908 students
- Roberto W. Clemente MiddleMiddle · 888 students
- Martin Luther King Jr. MiddleMiddle · 841 students
- Waters Landing ElementaryElementary · 735 students
Nearby schools
- Captain James E. Daly Elementary0.5 mi · 472
- Dr. Sally K. Ride Elementary0.9 mi · 428
- William B. Gibbs Jr. Elementary1.3 mi · 601
- Watkins Mill High1.5 mi · 1,577
- Fox Chapel Elementary1.5 mi · 617
- Waters Landing Elementary1.5 mi · 735
Frequently asked questions
About Neelsville MiddleWhat is the total enrollment at Neelsville Middle?
Neelsville Middle enrolls approximately 781 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does Neelsville Middle serve?
Neelsville Middle serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Neelsville Middle?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Neelsville Middle is approximately 14.4:1 (54 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Neelsville Middle?
At Neelsville Middle, the student body is approximately 7% White, 44% Hispanic, 29% Black, 16% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is Neelsville Middle public or private?
Neelsville Middle 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.