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Enrollment
601
Elementary
DISTRICT 514 · STATE 481
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MONTGOMERY COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240048001673
William B. Gibbs Jr. Elementary
12615 Royal Crown Drive, Germantown, MD 20876 · (240) 740-0740 · Montgomery County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL601 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 95% of Maryland public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Maryland public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.7:1
41 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
40%
241 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 | 109 | 18% |
| Kindergarten | 81 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 96 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 76 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 88 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 77 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 74 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (81) is 9% larger than its 5th grade class (74).
Student demographics
77%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
60.0%
MD avg 50.6% . -22.9pp since 2023
Math
61.5%
MD avg 34.8% . -16.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 60 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 62 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 23 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 16 points.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 60.0% | 61.5% |
| 2023-24 | 82.9% | 77.5% |
% 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
70.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.5%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+20.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 70% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 50% 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 20 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 William B. Gibbs Jr. Elementary
William B. Gibbs Jr. Elementary's state test result (70.5% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| William B. Gibbs Jr. Elementary this school | 601 | 40.1% | 70.5% |
| Dr. Ronald E. McNair Elementary Germantown | 673 | 33.6% | 59.9% |
| Bayard Rustin Elementary Rockville | 757 | 41.6% | 59.4% |
| Little Bennett Elementary Clarksburg | 614 | 29.3% | 59.1% |
| Elkridge Elementary Elkridge | 798 | 45.9% | 47.4% |
| Perry Hall Elementary Baltimore | 476 | 48.3% | 63.1% |
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 William B. Gibbs Jr. Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Montgomery County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 70.5% | #96 of 853 | #32 of 131 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 61.5% | #182 of 853 ▼ 144 | #45 of 131 ▼ 26 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 60.0% | #293 of 853 ▼ 261 | #66 of 131 ▼ 53 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 601 | #213 of 898 | #39 of 139 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.7:1 | #547 of 857 | #106 of 136 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 76.9% | #8 of 857 | #6 of 136 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 40.1% | #618 of 885 | #72 of 137 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.8% | #233 of 551 | #37 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
601
+50 (+9%) vs 2020
-18% since 2010-11, when it was 730
Student : Teacher
14.7:1
was 14.1:1
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 | 601 | 40.8 | 14.7:1 | 40% (241) |
| 2023-24 | 601 | 40.2 | 14.9:1 | 37% (225) |
| 2022-23 | 632 | 41 | 15.4:1 | 36% (226) |
| 2020-21 | 551 | 39 | 14.1:1 | 30% (165) |
| 2017-18 | 705 | 43 | 16.4:1 | 33% (232) |
| 2015-16 | 748 | 44 | 17.0:1 | 35% (262) |
| 2010-11 | 730 | 43 | 17.0:1 | 24% (177) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for William B. Gibbs Jr. Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 15% (705 to 601); teachers down 5% (43 to 40.8).
About William B. Gibbs Jr. Elementary
William B. Gibbs Jr. Elementary is the name of a medium-sized elementary school in Germantown, Maryland. Grades offered run from pre-K through 5, with 601 students enrolled. The average among elementary schools in Maryland is roughly 481 students; this school is 25% larger than that.
Montgomery County Public Schools has a total of 208 schools and 159,181 students, William B. Gibbs Jr. Elementary among them.
Federal enrollment data show Black students as the largest group at William B. Gibbs Jr. Elementary, at 28%. Enrollment also includes 27% Asian, 22% Hispanic, 17% White, and 6% multiracial. Among people living in Montgomery County, the Black share is about 19%. William B. Gibbs Jr. Elementary's diversity index is 77%, against a US figure of 70%.
The school reports 40.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 14.7 students per teacher. The school has more students per teacher than the 13.8:1 average for elementary schools in Maryland. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 40%. That tracks the 40% average for public schools in Montgomery County.
allk12 grades William B. Gibbs Jr. Elementary an A+. The grade compares the school only with Maryland public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
A school in Maryland with William B. Gibbs Jr. Elementary's free or reduced-price lunch share would be expected to score about 50.5%. William B. Gibbs Jr. Elementary scores 70.5%.
Montgomery County census figures show that the median household income is $132,450, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 61% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 5%. Montgomery County is home to 211 public schools and about 159,181 public school students.
Of nearby public schools, Rocky Hill Middle is the closest, at about 1.2 miles. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of William B. Gibbs Jr. Elementary. On proficiency, William B. Gibbs Jr. Elementary is ahead of the 39.4% nearby average, ranking 2nd of 9.
The school's locale code, Suburb: Large, means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment is up 9% from 2020-21, when William B. Gibbs Jr. Elementary had 551 students, to 2024-25, when it had 601.
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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 Germantown
- Seneca Valley HighHigh · 2,409 students
- Northwest HighHigh · 2,300 students
- Kingsview MiddleMiddle · 908 students
- Roberto W. Clemente MiddleMiddle · 888 students
- Martin Luther King Jr. MiddleMiddle · 841 students
- Neelsville MiddleMiddle · 781 students
Nearby schools
- Rocky Hill Middle1.2 mi · 1,010
- Dr. Sally K. Ride Elementary1.2 mi · 428
- Waters Landing Elementary1.3 mi · 735
- Neelsville Middle1.3 mi · 781
- Clarksburg High1.4 mi · 2,241
- Snowden Farm Elementary1.6 mi · 578
Frequently asked questions
About William B. Gibbs Jr. ElementaryHow many students attend William B. Gibbs Jr. Elementary?
William B. Gibbs Jr. Elementary enrolls approximately 601 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does William B. Gibbs Jr. Elementary serve?
William B. Gibbs Jr. Elementary serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at William B. Gibbs Jr. Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at William B. Gibbs Jr. Elementary is approximately 14.7:1 (41 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at William B. Gibbs Jr. Elementary?
Student demographics at William B. Gibbs Jr. Elementary are roughly 17% White, 22% Hispanic, 28% Black, 27% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is William B. Gibbs Jr. Elementary in?
William B. Gibbs Jr. Elementary is part of Montgomery County Public Schools.
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