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Which teacher or staff member at S. Christa McAuliffe Elementary deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
467
Elementary
DISTRICT 514 · STATE 481
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MONTGOMERY COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240048010502
S. Christa McAuliffe Elementary
12500 Wisteria Dr, Germantown, MD 20874 · (240) 740-4920 · Montgomery County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL467 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 37% of Maryland public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
11.4:1
41 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
55%
257 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 | 37 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 78 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 65 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 65 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 81 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 72 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 69 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (78) is 13% larger than its 5th grade class (69).
Student demographics
68%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
45.5%
MD avg 50.6% . +5.7pp since 2023
Math
32.2%
MD avg 34.8% . -10.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 46 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 32 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 11 points.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 45.5% | 32.2% |
| 2023-24 | 39.8% | 43.0% |
% 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
40.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.6%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% 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 S. Christa McAuliffe Elementary
S. Christa McAuliffe Elementary's state test result (40.1% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| S. Christa McAuliffe Elementary this school | 467 | 55.0% | 40.1% |
| Cannon Road Elementary Silver Spring | 388 | 58.2% | 30.7% |
| Lake Seneca Elementary Germantown | 437 | 61.3% | 35.7% |
| Judith A. Resnik Elementary Gaithersburg | 516 | 58.3% | 40.7% |
| Cedarmere Elementary Reisterstown | 502 | 59.6% | 31.9% |
| Reisterstown Elementary Reisterstown | 518 | 61.6% | 24.7% |
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 S. Christa McAuliffe Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Montgomery County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 40.1% | #472 of 853 | #96 of 131 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 32.2% | #559 of 853 ▼ 189 | #111 of 131 ▼ 27 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 45.5% | #486 of 853 ▲ 26 | #93 of 131 ▲ 9 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 467 | #458 of 898 | #91 of 139 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.4:1 | #109 of 857 | #37 of 136 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.9% | #242 of 857 | #73 of 136 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 55.0% | #479 of 885 | #48 of 137 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -19.8% | #153 of 551 | #23 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
467
-98 (-17%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
11.4:1
was 12.8:1
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 | 467 | 41 | 11.4:1 | 55% (257) |
| 2023-24 | 493 | 40 | 12.3:1 | 62% (305) |
| 2022-23 | 517 | 41.7 | 12.4:1 | 70% (362) |
| 2020-21 | 565 | 44 | 12.8:1 | 57% (321) |
| 2017-18 | 582 | 44.5 | 13.1:1 | 48% (280) |
| 2015-16 | 640 | 43 | 14.9:1 | 49% (314) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for S. Christa McAuliffe Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 20% (582 to 467); teachers down 8% (44.5 to 41).
About S. Christa McAuliffe Elementary
S. Christa McAuliffe Elementary is one of the public schools in Germantown, Maryland. It is a medium-sized elementary school. It serves 467 students in pre-K through 5.
The district, Montgomery County Public Schools, has 159,181 students enrolled across 208 schools.
Federal enrollment data show Hispanic students as the largest group at S. Christa McAuliffe Elementary, at 41%. Other reported shares: 37% Black, 8% White, 8% Asian, and 6% multiracial. Montgomery County's residents are about 21% Hispanic, 20 points below the school's share. The school's diversity index is 68%, meaning two students picked at random have a 68% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
The teaching staff at S. Christa McAuliffe Elementary is 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 11.4:1. This ratio sits 2.4 below the 13.8:1 average for elementary schools in Maryland. The percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 55%. That is higher than the 40% average for public schools in Montgomery County.
S. Christa McAuliffe Elementary is graded C+ by allk12, scoring above 37% of Maryland public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate on state tests with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For S. Christa McAuliffe Elementary, the prediction is 41.6% and the result is 40.1%.
Montgomery County census figures show that the median household income is $132,450, 61% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of people live in poverty. There are 211 public schools in Montgomery County, enrolling about 159,181 students in all.
Seneca Valley High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles away. Within five miles of S. Christa McAuliffe Elementary, there are at least 8 other public schools. Its average proficiency rate of 40.1% is above the 40.1% average for nearby schools.
The school's locale code, Suburb: Large, means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment dropped 17% from its 2020-21 level of 565. Its ratio of students to teachers was 12.8:1 in 2020-21, and 11.4:1 in 2024-25.
Conversations here can range across school safety, transportation, and start times. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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 Germantown
- Seneca Valley HighHigh · 2,409 students
- Northwest HighHigh · 2,300 students
- Kingsview MiddleMiddle · 908 students
- Roberto W. Clemente MiddleMiddle · 888 students
- Martin Luther King Jr. MiddleMiddle · 841 students
- Neelsville MiddleMiddle · 781 students
Other S. Christa McAuliffe Elementary schools
One other US public school is named S. Christa McAuliffe Elementary. S. Christa McAuliffe Elementary is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- S. Christa McAuliffe ElementaryRiverside, CA · 508 students
Nearby schools
- Seneca Valley High0.6 mi · 2,409
- Clopper Mill Elementary0.6 mi · 458
- Roberto W. Clemente Middle0.7 mi · 888
- Germantown Elementary0.9 mi · 314
- Fox Chapel Elementary1.0 mi · 617
- Great Seneca Creek Elementary1.1 mi · 487
Frequently asked questions
About S. Christa McAuliffe ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at S. Christa McAuliffe Elementary?
S. Christa McAuliffe Elementary enrolls approximately 467 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does S. Christa McAuliffe Elementary serve?
S. Christa McAuliffe Elementary serves grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at S. Christa McAuliffe Elementary?
Approximately 11.4:1 students per teacher at S. Christa McAuliffe Elementary.
How diverse is S. Christa McAuliffe Elementary?
S. Christa McAuliffe Elementary reports a student body of 8% White, 41% Hispanic, 37% Black, 8% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees S. Christa McAuliffe Elementary?
S. Christa McAuliffe Elementary is overseen by Montgomery County Public Schools in Montgomery County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.