Springbrook High

Springbrook High is a four-year high school of expansive scale in Silver Spring, Maryland, operated by Montgomery County Public Schools, caters to 1,838 students in grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 1,185 students per school, that is 55% bigger than typical.

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

Demographically, Springbrook High shows that 46% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 37% Black, 10% Asian, 4% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Montgomery County as a whole is about 21% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 119 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.4:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 60% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is higher than Montgomery County's rate of about 40%.

With demographic context factored in, Springbrook High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 38.8%; this one delivers 32.0%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Montgomery County put median household income runs about $132,450, roughly 61% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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), Springbrook High is one campus in the mix.

White Oak Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Springbrook High ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 39.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 1,796 students in 2018 compared to 1,838 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 39% to 46% across the same window.

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