Ridgeview Middle

Ridgeview Middle is one of the medium-sized middle-grades schools in Gaithersburg, Maryland, part of Montgomery County Public Schools, with 722 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

Montgomery County Public Schools runs 208 schools in total, collectively educating 159,181 students. Ridgeview Middle is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Ridgeview Middle logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (33%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 30% White, 19% Black, 13% Asian, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Montgomery County as a whole is about 21% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Ridgeview Middle has 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 42% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Ridgeview Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 49.5%; this one delivers 41.0%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Montgomery County indicate median household income runs about $132,450, roughly 61% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Ridgeview Middle is one of 211 public schools in Montgomery County (combined enrollment of about 159,181 students).

Nearest neighbor: Thurgood Marshall Elementary, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Ridgeview Middle. On composite proficiency, Ridgeview Middle comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 57.0%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 3%: 704 students in 2018 compared to 722 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 41% to 30% across the same window.

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