Watkins Mill Elementary

Set in Montgomery Village, Maryland, Watkins Mill Elementary is a large elementary campus, overseen by Montgomery County Public Schools. It works with 734 students across grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 53% larger than the state mean of about 481.

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

In terms of who attends, Watkins Mill Elementary logs that 75% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school shows 14% Black, 6% Asian, 3% White, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 21% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Watkins Mill Elementary shows 65 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Watkins Mill Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. About 60% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Montgomery County's rate of about 40%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Watkins Mill Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.7%, the actual is 25.8%, a residual of -12.8 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Montgomery County indicate median household earnings sit near $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), Watkins Mill Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Montgomery Village Middle, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Watkins Mill Elementary. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Watkins Mill Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 32.0%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 5%: 696 students in 2018 compared to 734 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 54% to 75%.

Inside the community feed, members of the Watkins Mill Elementary community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.