Rosemont Elementary

Rosemont Elementary operates as a medium-sized elementary campus in Gaithersburg, Maryland, part of Montgomery County Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 564 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Rosemont Elementary logs that 48% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 29% Black, 8% Asian, 7% White, 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, Staff filings list 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Rosemont Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 59% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Montgomery County runs at roughly 40%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Rosemont Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 39.3%; this one delivers 43.1%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Montgomery County indicate median household income runs about $132,450, about 61% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Montgomery County runs 211 public schools (combined enrollment of about 159,181 students), of which Rosemont Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Summit Hall 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 Rosemont Elementary at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 30.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Rosemont Elementary's enrollment has decreased 9% since 2018, when it stood at 619 (now 564).

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