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Alumni: what's one memory from Wayside Elementary that still sticks with you?
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Enrollment
465
Elementary
DISTRICT 514 · STATE 481
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MONTGOMERY COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240048000945
Wayside Elementary
10011 Glen Rd, Potomac, MD 20854 · (240) 740-0240 · Montgomery County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL465 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
10%
46 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 | 18 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 69 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 76 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 63 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 93 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 58 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 88 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (69) is 22% smaller than its 5th grade class (88).
Student demographics
69%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
88.8%
MD avg 50.6% . +4.4pp since 2023
Math
86.8%
MD avg 34.8% . +5.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 89 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 87 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Maryland schools, those numbers are about 51 and 35. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 88.8% | 86.8% |
| 2023-24 | 84.4% | 81.3% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of MD schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
85.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
68.4%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+17.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 85% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 68% typical for Maryland schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 17 points, placing it in Maryland's top 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 Wayside Elementary
Wayside Elementary's state test result (85.3% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wayside Elementary this school | 465 | 9.9% | 85.3% |
| Worthington Elementary Ellicott City | 403 | 11.7% | 81.8% |
| Travilah Elementary North Potomac | 372 | 13.4% | 86.0% |
| Cold Spring Elementary Potomac | 362 | 7.7% | 84.0% |
| Potomac Elementary Potomac | 475 | 7.6% | 83.8% |
| Triadelphia Ridge Elementary Ellicott City | 619 | 7.3% | 81.9% |
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 Wayside Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Montgomery County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 85.3% | #9 of 853 | #4 of 131 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 86.8% | #4 of 853 ▲ 17 | #3 of 131 ▲ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 88.8% | #11 of 853 ▲ 12 | #6 of 131 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 465 | #459 of 898 | #92 of 139 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.3:1 | #330 of 857 | #78 of 136 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.8% | #220 of 857 | #69 of 136 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 9.9% | #856 of 885 | #127 of 137 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.1% | #225 of 551 | #36 of 97 |
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
465
+6 (+1%) vs 2020
+2% since 1990-91, when it was 454
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
was 14.3:1
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 | 465 | 35.1 | 13.3:1 | 10% (46) |
| 2023-24 | 470 | 35.2 | 13.3:1 | 9% (42) |
| 2022-23 | 442 | 29.4 | 15.0:1 | 9% (40) |
| 2020-21 | 459 | 32 | 14.3:1 | 6% (28) |
| 2017-18 | 548 | 33.7 | 16.3:1 | 5% (26) |
| 2015-16 | 526 | 30 | 17.5:1 | 6% (33) |
| 2010-11 | 560 | 34 | 16.5:1 | 4% (22) |
| 2000-01 | 612 | 30 | 20.4:1 | 4% (27) |
| 1990-91 | 454 | 24 | 18.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Wayside Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 15% (548 to 465); teachers up 4% (33.7 to 35.1).
About Wayside Elementary
The public elementary school Wayside Elementary is located in Potomac, Maryland. Grades offered run from pre-K through 5, with 465 students enrolled.
The district, Montgomery County Public Schools, has 159,181 students enrolled across 208 schools.
Federal enrollment data show Asian students as the largest group at Wayside Elementary, at 40%. Beyond that, enrollment is 36% White, 9% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, and 7% Black. The Asian share of the county population is lower, at 15%. Wayside Elementary's diversity index is 69%, against a US figure of 70%.
Dividing enrollment by its 35.1 full-time-equivalent teachers gives a ratio of about 13.3:1. For comparison, elementary schools in Maryland average 13.8:1. Wayside Elementary reports 10% of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals. That rate is below the 40% average among public schools in Montgomery County.
The BeatsExpectations model predicts 68.4% for Wayside Elementary, given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The actual figure is 85.3%. The 17.0-point gap ranks in the top 10% of Maryland schools.
County data help place the school in context: in Montgomery County, the median household income is $132,450, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 61% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 5%. Montgomery County is home to 211 public schools and about 159,181 public school students.
The closest public school to Wayside Elementary is Cold Spring Elementary, about 1.2 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of 9 schools in the immediate area with test results, Wayside Elementary ranks 1st on average proficiency.
By NCES locale, the school is Suburb: Large, or in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment held near 465, starting from 459. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 14.3:1 in 2020-21 to 13.3:1 in 2024-25.
Parents and students can post about sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater at Wayside Elementary. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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 Potomac
- Winston Churchill HighHigh · 2,185 students
- Cabin John MiddleMiddle · 983 students
- Herbert Hoover MiddleMiddle · 930 students
- Bells Mill ElementaryElementary · 570 students
- Beverly Farms ElementaryElementary · 526 students
- Potomac ElementaryElementary · 475 students
Other Wayside Elementary schools
3 other US public schools in 4 states are named Wayside Elementary. Wayside Elementary is the 4th largest of the 4.
- Wayside Elementary SchoolBartlesville, OK · 696 students
- Wayside ElementaryBakersfield, CA · 652 students
- Wayside Elementary SchoolOCEAN, NJ · 583 students
Nearby schools
- Cold Spring Elementary1.2 mi · 362
- Herbert Hoover Middle1.5 mi · 930
- Beverly Farms Elementary1.6 mi · 526
- Winston Churchill High1.8 mi · 2,185
- Potomac Elementary1.8 mi · 475
- Ritchie Park Elementary2.0 mi · 342
Frequently asked questions
About Wayside ElementaryHow large is Wayside Elementary?
Wayside Elementary enrolls approximately 465 students in grades PK-05.
Is Wayside Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Wayside Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Wayside Elementary have?
Wayside Elementary employs 35 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.3:1.
What is the student diversity at Wayside Elementary?
Student demographics at Wayside Elementary are roughly 36% White, 9% Hispanic, 7% Black, 40% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees Wayside Elementary?
Wayside Elementary is overseen by Montgomery County Public Schools in Montgomery County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.