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What's one thing Stonegate Elementary gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
565
Elementary
DISTRICT 514 · STATE 481
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MONTGOMERY COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240048000929
Stonegate Elementary
14811 Notley Road, Silver Spring, MD 20905 · (240) 740-7340 · Montgomery County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL565 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.0:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
35%
195 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 | 43 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 84 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 77 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 80 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 93 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 91 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 97 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (84) is 13% smaller than its 5th grade class (97).
Student demographics
75%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
56.3%
MD avg 50.6% . -10.3pp since 2023
Math
48.9%
MD avg 34.8% . -4.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 49 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Maryland schools, those numbers are about 51 and 35. Reading and writing scores are down about 10 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 5 points.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 56.3% | 48.9% |
| 2023-24 | 66.6% | 53.8% |
% 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
56.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
53.8%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 56% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 54% 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 Stonegate Elementary
Stonegate Elementary's state test result (56.4% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stonegate Elementary this school | 565 | 34.5% | 56.4% |
| Thunder Hill Elementary Columbia | 459 | 37.7% | 48.0% |
| Forest Ridge Elementary Laurel | 659 | 40.8% | 43.7% |
| Swansfield Elementary Columbia | 594 | 38.2% | 54.3% |
| Woodlin Elementary Silver Spring | 603 | 36.2% | 61.9% |
| William Tyler Page Elementary Silver Spring | 620 | 42.1% | 59.8% |
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 Stonegate Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Montgomery County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 56.4% | #261 of 853 | #68 of 131 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 48.9% | #309 of 853 ▼ 64 | #73 of 131 ▼ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 56.3% | #338 of 853 ▼ 173 | #69 of 131 ▼ 24 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 565 | #261 of 898 | #49 of 139 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.0:1 | #448 of 857 | #97 of 136 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 75.4% | #24 of 857 | #14 of 136 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 34.5% | #670 of 885 | #82 of 137 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +10.8% | #124 of 294 | #9 of 34 |
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
565
+71 (+14%) vs 2020
+18% since 1990-91, when it was 479
Student : Teacher
14.0:1
was 15.9:1
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 | 565 | 40.3 | 14.0:1 | 35% (195) |
| 2023-24 | 549 | 37.9 | 14.5:1 | 32% (173) |
| 2022-23 | 490 | 31 | 15.8:1 | 33% (162) |
| 2020-21 | 494 | 31 | 15.9:1 | 27% (134) |
| 2017-18 | 510 | 31.9 | 16.0:1 | 25% (127) |
| 2015-16 | 494 | 28 | 17.6:1 | 25% (123) |
| 2010-11 | 442 | 27 | 16.4:1 | 14% (60) |
| 2000-01 | 488 | 24 | 20.3:1 | 9% (43) |
| 1990-91 | 479 | 25 | 19.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Stonegate Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 11% (510 to 565); teachers up 26% (31.9 to 40.3).
About Stonegate Elementary
In Silver Spring, Maryland, part of Montgomery County, Stonegate Elementary is an elementary school. A total of 565 students attend the school, which covers pre-K through 5.
Stonegate Elementary is one school in a 208-school district, Montgomery County Public Schools, which enrolls 159,181 students.
Black students form the largest group at Stonegate Elementary, 35% of enrollment. Next come 25% Hispanic, 19% White, 13% Asian, and 7% multiracial. That compares with about 19% Black among all Montgomery County residents. By the diversity index, Stonegate Elementary comes in at 75%.
Teachers at Stonegate Elementary total 40.3 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 14.0:1. Across elementary schools in Maryland, the average ratio is about 13.8:1. The school counts 195 students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, or 35%.
Stonegate Elementary posts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 56.4%, compared with a predicted 53.8%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Maryland schools on BeatsExpectations.
In Montgomery County (population about 1,065,949), median household income is about $132,450, roughly 61% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Stonegate Elementary is one of 211 public schools in Montgomery County, which together enroll about 159,181 students.
The school nearest to Stonegate Elementary is James Hubert Blake High, at a distance of about 1.0 miles. Within five miles of Stonegate Elementary, there are at least 8 other public schools. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 47.5%; Stonegate Elementary's is 56.4%, ranking 4th of 8.
The school's federal locale classification is Suburb: Large.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, Stonegate Elementary went from 494 students to 565. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 15.9:1 to 14.0:1.
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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 Silver Spring
- Montgomery Blair HighHigh · 3,266 students
- Wheaton HighHigh · 2,794 students
- James Hubert Blake HighHigh · 1,960 students
- John F. Kennedy HighHigh · 1,880 students
- Springbrook HighHigh · 1,838 students
- Takoma Park MiddleMiddle · 1,177 students
Other Stonegate Elementary schools
6 other US public schools in 5 states are named Stonegate Elementary. Stonegate Elementary is the 3rd largest of the 7.
- Stonegate ElementaryIrvine, CA · 1,037 students
- Stonegate ElementaryWest Sacramento, CA · 928 students
- Stonegate ElementarySan Jose, CA · 500 students
- Stonegate Elementary SchoolBEDFORD, TX · 472 students
- Stonegate ElementaryZionsville, IN · 462 students
Nearby schools
- James Hubert Blake High1.0 mi · 1,960
- Cloverly Elementary1.3 mi · 429
- Dr. Charles R. Drew Elementary1.6 mi · 485
- Westover Elementary1.7 mi · 294
- Argyle Middle1.9 mi · 868
- William Tyler Page Elementary2.4 mi · 620
Frequently asked questions
About Stonegate ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Stonegate Elementary?
Stonegate Elementary enrolls approximately 565 students in grades PK-05.
Is Stonegate Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Stonegate Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Stonegate Elementary have?
Stonegate Elementary employs 40 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.0:1.
How diverse is Stonegate Elementary?
Stonegate Elementary reports a student body of 19% White, 25% Hispanic, 35% Black, 13% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is Stonegate Elementary public or private?
Stonegate Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Montgomery County Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.