Roberto W. Clemente Middle

Roberto W. Clemente Middle is one of the medium-sized junior highs in Germantown, Maryland, one of the schools within Montgomery County Public Schools, with 888 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Roberto W. Clemente Middle shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 36%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 31% Black, 16% Asian, 11% White, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 21% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 63 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 14.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 55% of students at Roberto W. Clemente 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 residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Roberto W. Clemente Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.7%, the actual is 34.1%, a residual of -7.6 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Montgomery County put median household income runs about $132,450, 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), Roberto W. Clemente Middle is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Fox Chapel Elementary, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Roberto W. Clemente Middle at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 37.3%.

Roberto W. Clemente Middle operates from a bedroom-community location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Roberto W. Clemente Middle has ticked down 35%, going from 1,373 students in 2018 to 888 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share declined from 25% to 16%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 today.

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