Enrollment
314
Elementary
DISTRICT 514 · STATE 481
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MONTGOMERY COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 240048000959
Woodfield Elementary
24200 Woodfield Rd, Gaithersburg, MD 20882 · (240) 207-2550 · Montgomery County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL314 STUDENTS
A+
allk12 Grade
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.
- ABeats 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
10.6:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
32%
101 students
DISTRICT 40% · STATE 54%
Community
0
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 | 60 | 19% |
| Kindergarten | 34 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 40 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 46 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 48 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 44 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 42 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (34) is 19% smaller than its 5th grade class (42).
Student demographics
73%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
75.5%
MD avg 50.6% . +3.7pp since 2023
Math
62.8%
MD avg 34.8% . -17.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the MCAP, Maryland's statewide test, about 76 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 63 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 down about 17 points.
MCAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 75.5% | 62.8% |
| 2023-24 | 71.8% | 80.0% |
% 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
72.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
55.2%
based on MD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+17.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 73% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 55% 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 Woodfield Elementary
Woodfield Elementary's state test result (72.5% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woodfield Elementary this school | 314 | 32.2% | 72.5% |
| Candlewood Elementary Rockville | 358 | 33.2% | 62.5% |
| Laytonsville Elementary Gaithersburg | 355 | 34.4% | 59.9% |
| Jones Lane Elementary Gaithersburg | 428 | 34.3% | 71.0% |
| Westover Elementary Silver Spring | 294 | 29.6% | 69.4% |
| Cashell Elementary Rockville | 386 | 28.2% | 71.6% |
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 Woodfield Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Maryland | In Montgomery County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 72.5% | #75 of 853 | #27 of 131 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 62.8% | #164 of 853 ▼ 139 | #41 of 131 ▼ 27 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 75.5% | #98 of 853 ▲ 12 | #28 of 131 ▲ 8 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 314 | #736 of 898 | #133 of 139 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.6:1 | #54 of 857 | #15 of 136 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 72.8% | #90 of 857 | #31 of 136 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 32.2% | #694 of 885 | #89 of 137 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.1% | #452 of 551 | #80 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
314
-3 (-1%) vs 2020
-48% since 1990-91, when it was 609
Student : Teacher
10.6:1
was 10.9:1
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 | 314 | 29.6 | 10.6:1 | 32% (101) |
| 2023-24 | 318 | 29.7 | 10.7:1 | 30% (94) |
| 2022-23 | 323 | 29.3 | 11.0:1 | 27% (87) |
| 2020-21 | 317 | 29 | 10.9:1 | 20% (63) |
| 2017-18 | 331 | 23.1 | 14.3:1 | 17% (57) |
| 2015-16 | 284 | 17 | 16.7:1 | 21% (59) |
| 2010-11 | 359 | 19 | 18.9:1 | 13% (45) |
| 2000-01 | 483 | 25 | 19.3:1 | 3% (16) |
| 1990-91 | 609 | 32 | 19.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Woodfield Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 5% (331 to 314); teachers up 28% (23.1 to 29.6).
About Woodfield Elementary
Woodfield Elementary sits in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and is classified as an elementary school. The school serves pre-K through 5. Enrollment is 314 students. Elementary schools in Maryland have about 481 students on average; enrollment here is 35% lower.
Montgomery County Public Schools runs 208 schools with a combined 159,181 students. Woodfield Elementary is one of them.
No group is above 50% at Woodfield Elementary; the largest is White, at 38%. It is also 31% Hispanic, 15% Black, 10% Asian, and 7% multiracial. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Woodfield Elementary scores 73%.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 10.6:1. The school has 29.6 full-time-equivalent teachers. The gap from the 13.8:1 average for elementary schools in Maryland is 3.2 students per teacher. In all, 32% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That is 8 points below the 40% average for public schools in Montgomery County.
Among Maryland public elementary schools, Woodfield Elementary outscored 95%, which works out to an A+ on the allk12 Grade.
On BeatsExpectations, which compares test results with what a school's student poverty level would predict, Woodfield Elementary ranks in the top 10% in Maryland. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 72.5%, against a prediction of 55.2%.
In Montgomery County, home to about 1,065,949 people, the median household earns about $132,450 a year, roughly 61% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Montgomery County number 211, with about 159,181 students.
The closest school to Woodfield Elementary is Lois P. Rockwell Elementary, located about 0.9 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. In a group of 9 nearby schools with scores, Woodfield Elementary ranks 3rd on average proficiency.
Woodfield Elementary is coded as Suburb: Large in federal locale data.
Enrollment went from 317 in 2020-21 to 314 in 2024-25, a change of 3 students.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about open houses, carpools, and field trips at Woodfield Elementary. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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 Gaithersburg
- Gaithersburg HighHigh · 2,441 students
- Quince Orchard HighHigh · 2,100 students
- Watkins Mill HighHigh · 1,577 students
- Lakelands Park MiddleMiddle · 993 students
- Gaithersburg MiddleMiddle · 869 students
- Forest Oak MiddleMiddle · 828 students
Other Woodfield Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Woodfield Elementary. Woodfield Elementary is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Woodfield ElementaryWaterford, WI · 322 students
Nearby schools
- Lois P. Rockwell Elementary0.9 mi · 518
- Clearspring Elementary1.1 mi · 541
- John T. Baker Middle School1.8 mi · 841
- Cedar Grove Elementary1.9 mi · 326
- Damascus High2.1 mi · 1,390
- Damascus Elementary2.4 mi · 331
Frequently asked questions
About Woodfield ElementaryHow many students attend Woodfield Elementary?
Woodfield Elementary enrolls approximately 314 students in grades PK-05.
Is Woodfield Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Woodfield Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Woodfield Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Woodfield Elementary is approximately 10.6:1 (30 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Woodfield Elementary?
Student demographics at Woodfield Elementary are roughly 38% White, 31% Hispanic, 15% Black, 10% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is Woodfield Elementary in?
Woodfield Elementary is part of Montgomery County Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.