Rolling Terrace Elementary

Set in Takoma Park, Maryland, Rolling Terrace Elementary is a mid-tier elementary-level community, part of Montgomery County Public Schools. It educates 645 students across grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Maryland's public schools average about 481 students each, so Rolling Terrace Elementary sits 34% larger than that benchmark.

Within Montgomery County Public Schools, which oversees 208 schools and 159,181 students, Rolling Terrace Elementary is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Rolling Terrace Elementary shows that 82% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 11% Black, 5% White. The wider county runs roughly 21% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Rolling Terrace Elementary records 62 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. An estimated 69% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Montgomery County's rate of about 40%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Rolling Terrace Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 33.5%; this one delivers 21.1%.

In the broader community, census data for Montgomery County shows the typical household earns roughly $132,450 per year, about 61% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Montgomery County's 211 public schools (combined enrollment of about 159,181 students), Rolling Terrace Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is New Hampshire Estates Elem, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Rolling Terrace Elementary comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 42.8%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Rolling Terrace Elementary's enrollment has fell 28% since 2018, when it stood at 892 (now 645). The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 68% to 82% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 today.

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