Sargent Shriver Elementary

Sargent Shriver Elementary, a reasonably sized primary school in Silver Spring, Maryland, overseen by Montgomery County Public Schools, enrolls 697 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 45% bigger than the typical public school in Maryland, which averages around 481 students.

Montgomery County Public Schools comprises 208 schools with combined enrollment of 159,181 students; Sargent Shriver Elementary is among them.

On demographics, Sargent Shriver Elementary records that 83% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest reads as 7% Black, 5% Asian, 4% White. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 21%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Sargent Shriver Elementary has 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.1:1. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 80% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Montgomery County's rate of about 40%.

After controlling for student poverty, Sargent Shriver Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 27.1%; this one delivers 27.7%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Montgomery County put median household earnings sit near $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 Sargent Shriver Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: A. Mario Loiederman Middle, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Sargent Shriver Elementary. On composite proficiency, Sargent Shriver Elementary comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 34.1%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Five-year trend. Sargent Shriver Elementary's enrollment has declined 12% since 2018, when it stood at 796 (now 697). The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 78% to 83% over that span.

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