Waters Landing Elementary

As a heavily attended K-5 school in Germantown, Maryland, Waters Landing Elementary educates 735 students from grades K through 5, run under Montgomery County Public Schools. By comparison, Maryland's public schools average about 481 students each, so Waters Landing Elementary sits 53% larger than that benchmark.

Waters Landing Elementary is one of 208 schools operated by Montgomery County Public Schools, a district that caters to 159,181 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Waters Landing Elementary reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (40%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 36% Black, 12% White, 8% Asian, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 21%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Waters Landing Elementary has 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Waters Landing Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 56% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Montgomery County (around 40%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Waters Landing Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 40.9%; this one delivers 33.9%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Montgomery County) reports that median household income runs about $132,450, roughly 61% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 Waters Landing Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Lake Seneca Elementary, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Waters Landing Elementary. On composite proficiency, Waters Landing Elementary comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 42.9%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 4%: 710 students in 2018 compared to 735 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 today.

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