Thurgood Marshall Elementary

Thurgood Marshall Elementary is a primary school of medium-sized scale in Gaithersburg, Maryland, overseen by Montgomery County Public Schools, works with 553 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 208 schools in Montgomery County Public Schools (159,181 students total), Thurgood Marshall Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Thurgood Marshall Elementary logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 31%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 31% White, 22% Black, 10% Asian, 5% multiracial. 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, Thurgood Marshall Elementary has 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Thurgood Marshall Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. About 44% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

After controlling for student poverty, Thurgood Marshall Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.2%, the actual is 45.0%, a residual of -3.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, Montgomery County reports that the typical household earns roughly $132,450 per year, roughly 61% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Thurgood Marshall Elementary is one of 211 public schools in Montgomery County (combined enrollment of about 159,181 students).

The closest other public school is Ridgeview Middle, roughly 0.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Thurgood Marshall Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Thurgood Marshall Elementary at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 53.5%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 19%: 684 students in 2018 compared to 553 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share fell from 17% to 10%. Class-load math has tightened: from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 in 2025.

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