Wood Acres Elementary

Wood Acres Elementary operates as a medium-sized K-5 school in Bethesda, Maryland, overseen by Montgomery County Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 609 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 27% bigger than the typical public school in Maryland, which averages around 481 students.

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

Looking at the student body, Wood Acres Elementary records that White students make up the majority at 66%. Other groups include 12% Hispanic, 10% Asian, 6% Black, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Montgomery County as a whole is about 42% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.8:1 average. About 7% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Montgomery County (around 40%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Wood Acres Elementary sits in the top 10% of Maryland schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 69.9%; actual is 85.8%, +15.8 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the surrounding community, census data for Montgomery County shows median household income runs about $132,450, about 61% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Wood Acres Elementary is one of 211 public schools in Montgomery County (combined enrollment of about 159,181 students).

Nearest neighbor: Westland Middle, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Wood Acres Elementary comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 73.4%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Five-year trend. Wood Acres Elementary's enrollment has contracted 10% since 2018, when it stood at 676 (now 609). Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 16.5:1 in 2025.

On the community side, members of the Wood Acres Elementary community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.