Poolesville Elementary

Set in Poolesville, Maryland, Poolesville Elementary is a medium-sized primary school, run under Montgomery County Public Schools. It hosts 576 students across grades K through 5.

Across the 208 schools in Montgomery County Public Schools (159,181 students total), Poolesville Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Poolesville Elementary reports that 55% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 16% Hispanic, 11% Asian, 9% Black, 8% multiracial. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 42%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. About 16% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Montgomery County's rate of about 40%.

After controlling for student poverty, Poolesville Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.5%, the actual is 68.7%, a residual of +4.2 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Montgomery County put 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), Poolesville Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Poolesville High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Poolesville Elementary comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 69.6%.

Poolesville Elementary operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Poolesville Elementary has edged up 29%, going from 448 students in 2018 to 576 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 66% to 55% across the same window.

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