Rock Creek Valley Elementary

Located at 5121 Russett Rd, in Rockville, Maryland, Rock Creek Valley Elementary is a close-knit K-5 school that caters to 332 students (grades pre-K through 5), part of Montgomery County Public Schools. By comparison, Maryland's public schools average about 481 students each, so Rock Creek Valley Elementary sits 31% below that benchmark.

Rock Creek Valley Elementary is one of 208 schools operated by Montgomery County Public Schools, a district that serves 159,181 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Rock Creek Valley Elementary reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (45%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school records 29% White, 10% Asian, 9% Black, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Montgomery County as a whole is about 21% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Rock Creek Valley Elementary logs 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. Around 37% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Rock Creek Valley Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.3%, the actual is 51.9%, a residual of -0.4 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Montgomery County) records that the typical household earns roughly $132,450 per year, about 61% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Montgomery County runs 211 public schools (combined enrollment of about 159,181 students), of which Rock Creek Valley Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Brookhaven Elementary, roughly 0.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Rock Creek Valley Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Rock Creek Valley Elementary at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 41.0%.

Rock Creek Valley Elementary operates from a residential location.

Over the past 7-year window. Rock Creek Valley Elementary's enrollment has fell 20% since 2018, when it stood at 416 (now 332). Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 37% to 45%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 10.6:1 in 2018 to 9.5:1 today.

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