Newport Mill Middle

Newport Mill Middle is one of the average-sized junior highs in Kensington, Maryland, run under Montgomery County Public Schools, with 652 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

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

In terms of who attends, Newport Mill Middle lists that 59% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 18% White, 11% Black, 7% Asian, 4% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 21%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 14.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 53% of students at Newport Mill Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Montgomery County's rate of about 40%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Newport Mill Middle tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 42.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 33.2%.

Around the school, census data for Montgomery County shows the typical household earns roughly $132,450 per year, 61% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Montgomery County's 211 public schools (combined enrollment of about 159,181 students), Newport Mill Middle is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Albert Einstein High, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Newport Mill Middle ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 39.2%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Newport Mill Middle has climbed 4%, going from 626 students in 2018 to 652 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 50% to 59%.

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