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What tradition at Rock Creek Forest Elementary should never be changed?
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Enrollment
690
Elementary
DISTRICT 514 · STATE 481
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MONTGOMERY COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240048000907
Rock Creek Forest Elementary
8330 Grubb Road, Chevy Chase, MD 20815 · (240) 839-3201 · Montgomery County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL690 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 78% of Maryland public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Maryland public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.8:1
50 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
33%
229 students
DISTRICT 40% · STATE 54%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 39 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 105 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 120 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 102 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 104 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 121 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 99 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (105) is 6% larger than its 5th grade class (99).
Student demographics
72%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 75% · STATE 73% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
MCAP 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 3-4)English Language Arts
67.0%
MD avg 50.6% . +5.8pp since 2023
Math
60.5%
MD avg 34.8% . -1.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 61 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Maryland schools, those numbers are about 51 and 35. Reading and writing scores are up about 6 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 67.0% | 60.5% |
| 2023-24 | 61.2% | 62.1% |
% Proficient (Levels 3-4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: MCAP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
62.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.6%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 63% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 55% typical for Maryland schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Maryland's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Rock Creek Forest Elementary
Rock Creek Forest Elementary's state test result (62.7% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rock Creek Forest Elementary this school | 690 | 33.2% | 62.7% |
| Flora M. Singer Elementary Silver Spring | 653 | 37.2% | 48.5% |
| Lois P. Rockwell Elementary Damascus | 518 | 33.0% | 58.0% |
| Lucy V. Barnsley Elementary Rockville | 621 | 43.0% | 60.2% |
| Oakland Terrace Elementary Silver Spring | 500 | 30.2% | 59.8% |
| Flower Valley Elementary Rockville | 524 | 30.0% | 56.7% |
Matched among Maryland elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Rock Creek Forest Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Montgomery County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 62.7% | #184 of 853 | #49 of 131 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 60.5% | #186 of 853 ▼ 26 | #46 of 131 ▲ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 67.0% | #188 of 853 ▲ 45 | #42 of 131 ▲ 23 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 690 | #107 of 898 | #16 of 139 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.8:1 | #414 of 857 | #92 of 136 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.8% | #126 of 857 | #42 of 136 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 33.2% | #682 of 885 | #87 of 137 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.4% | #382 of 551 | #66 of 97 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
690
-44 (-6%) vs 2020
+99% since 1990-91, when it was 346
Student : Teacher
13.8:1
was 14.4:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 690 | 50.2 | 13.8:1 | 33% (229) |
| 2023-24 | 669 | 46.2 | 14.5:1 | 34% (230) |
| 2022-23 | 673 | 47.5 | 14.2:1 | 33% (224) |
| 2020-21 | 734 | 51 | 14.4:1 | 30% (218) |
| 2017-18 | 753 | 48.2 | 15.6:1 | 25% (187) |
| 2015-16 | 708 | 41 | 17.3:1 | 26% (186) |
| 2010-11 | 548 | 32 | 17.1:1 | 22% (121) |
| 2000-01 | 530 | 34 | 15.6:1 | 28% (151) |
| 1990-91 | 346 | 23 | 15.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Rock Creek Forest Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 8% (753 to 690); teachers up 4% (48.2 to 50.2).
About Rock Creek Forest Elementary
Students in Chevy Chase, Maryland, attend Rock Creek Forest Elementary, a medium-sized elementary school. The school counts 690 students across pre-K through 5. The school's enrollment is 43% above the 481 average for elementary schools in Maryland.
Rock Creek Forest Elementary is a school in Montgomery County Public Schools. The district has 208 schools and 159,181 students.
Rock Creek Forest Elementary's enrollment has no majority group, and Hispanic students are the largest at 39%. Other students are 29% White, 21% Black, 6% Asian, and 5% multiracial. By comparison, Montgomery County residents are about 21% Hispanic. Rock Creek Forest Elementary has a diversity index of 72%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
At Rock Creek Forest Elementary, 50.2 full-time-equivalent teachers work with students, a ratio of about 13.8:1. Across elementary schools in Maryland, the average ratio is about 13.8:1. Roughly 33% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch.
Measured against Maryland public elementary schools, Rock Creek Forest Elementary receives an A-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Test results at Rock Creek Forest Elementary are 8.1 points above what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (62.7% actual, 54.6% predicted).
Within Montgomery County, median household income is about $132,450, 61% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of people live in poverty. The public schools of Montgomery County number 211 and enroll about 159,181.
Nearest public school: Rosemary Hills Elementary, about 0.7 miles away. The five-mile area around Rock Creek Forest Elementary holds at least 8 other public schools. Local comparison: Rock Creek Forest Elementary ranks 3rd of 6 nearby schools, at 62.7% versus a 59.9% average.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Large, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Rock Creek Forest Elementary had 734 students in 2020-21 and 690 in 2024-25, a 6% decrease.
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Montgomery County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,065,949
Census ACS
Median income
$132,450
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
61%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
211
159,181 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Montgomery County Public Schools
- Montgomery Blair HighHigh · 3,266 students
- Walter Johnson HighHigh · 3,016 students
- Wheaton HighHigh · 2,794 students
- Gaithersburg HighHigh · 2,441 students
- Seneca Valley HighHigh · 2,409 students
- Bethesda-Chevy Chase HighHigh · 2,377 students
Other schools in Chevy Chase
- Chevy Chase ElementaryElementary · 434 students
- Somerset ElementaryElementary · 314 students
- North Chevy Chase ElementaryElementary · 237 students
Nearby schools
- Rosemary Hills Elementary0.7 mi · 499
- Woodlin Elementary1.0 mi · 603
- Shepherd Elementary School1.0 mi · 394
- North Chevy Chase Elementary1.3 mi · 237
- District of Columbia International School1.6 mi · 1,654
- Flora M. Singer Elementary1.8 mi · 653
Frequently asked questions
About Rock Creek Forest ElementaryHow many students attend Rock Creek Forest Elementary?
Rock Creek Forest Elementary enrolls approximately 690 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Rock Creek Forest Elementary serve?
Rock Creek Forest Elementary serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many teachers does Rock Creek Forest Elementary have?
Rock Creek Forest Elementary employs 50 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.8:1.
What is the student diversity at Rock Creek Forest Elementary?
Student demographics at Rock Creek Forest Elementary are roughly 29% White, 39% Hispanic, 21% Black, 6% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Rock Creek Forest Elementary in?
Rock Creek Forest Elementary is part of Montgomery County Public Schools.
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