Germantown Elementary

As a small K-5 school in Germantown, Maryland, Germantown Elementary serves 314 students from grades pre-K through 5, run under Montgomery County Public Schools. That puts it 35% smaller 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. Germantown Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Germantown Elementary reports that 36% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 26% Hispanic, 20% Asian, 13% White, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 19% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Germantown Elementary logs 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Germantown Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 52% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Montgomery County's rate of about 40%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Germantown Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.3%, the actual is 41.2%, a residual of -2.1 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Montgomery County shows median household income runs about $132,450, roughly 61% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Montgomery County runs 211 public schools (combined enrollment of about 159,181 students), of which Germantown Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Kingsview Middle, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Germantown Elementary comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 41.0%.

Germantown Elementary operates from a residential location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 321 students in 2018 compared to 314 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 18% to 13% across the same window.

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