Snowden Farm Elementary

Snowden Farm Elementary is a mid-tier elementary campus in Clarksburg, Maryland, operated by Montgomery County Public Schools. The school hosts 578 students in grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 481 students per school, that is 20% larger than typical.

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

Looking at the student body, Snowden Farm Elementary records that 47% of students identify as Asian, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 21% Black, 15% White, 12% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Montgomery County as a whole is about 15% Asian, so the school skews meaningfully more Asian than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Snowden Farm Elementary logs 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.0:1. The state averages around 13.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 21% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Montgomery County runs at roughly 40%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Snowden Farm Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.9%, the actual is 75.1%, a residual of +13.2 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Montgomery County indicate the typical household earns roughly $132,450 per year, 61% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Montgomery County's 211 public schools (combined enrollment of about 159,181 students), Snowden Farm Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Hallie Wells Middle, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Snowden Farm Elementary. On composite proficiency, Snowden Farm Elementary comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 59.2%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

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