Parkland Middle

Parkland Middle is one of the expansive middle schools in Rockville, Maryland, overseen by Montgomery County Public Schools, with 1,185 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 764 students per school, that is 55% larger than typical.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Parkland Middle lists that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 58% of enrollment. Other groups include 19% Black, 13% Asian, 7% White, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 21% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school currently runs with 78 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.2:1. The state averages around 14.3:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 60% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Montgomery County runs at roughly 40%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Parkland Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.7%, the actual is 38.0%, a residual of -0.7 points.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Montgomery County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $132,450 per year, 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), Parkland Middle is one campus in the mix.

Brookhaven Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Parkland Middle. On composite proficiency, Parkland Middle comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 42.9%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Looking at the recent track record. Parkland Middle's enrollment has increased 19% since 2018, when it stood at 1,000 (now 1,185). Hispanic enrollment moved from 47% to 58% across the same window.

On allk12, members of the Parkland Middle community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.