NCES CCD 2024-25 20 schools MD

Best-Resourced Schools in Germantown, MD

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20 public K-12 schools in Germantown from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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20
Schools
14,731
Students
42.6/100
Avg Resource Index
12.8:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Germantown has more public-school enrollment than 88% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Germantown sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

12 of Germantown's 20 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 26-point gap between Cedar Grove Elementary and Waters Landing Elementary shows the range hidden by Germantown's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment
Top 12%
School count
Top 15%
Resource Index average
59th percentile
Teacher staffing
81st percentile

Seneca Valley High accounts for 16.4% of all Germantown public-school enrollment

That concentration means Germantown-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Germantown school enrollment varies 41× across entities

Germantown school enrollment ranges from 59 students (lowest) to 2,409 students (highest), a spread of 2,350 students. That ratio is among the widest observed and reflects extreme heterogeneity inside a single city, with small specialty programs listed alongside large comprehensive campuses. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Germantown operates one school district — a single-district system

Germantown's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Germantown student-teacher ratio is 12.8:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Cedar Grove Elementary 57
2. Kingsview Middle 56
3. Roberto W. Clemente Middle 52
4. Germantown Elementary 49
5. Martin Luther King Jr. Middle 48
6. Spark M. Matsunaga Elementary 48
7. Northwest High 46
8. Neelsville Middle 43
9. Dr. Ronald E. Mcnair Elementary 43
10. Dr. Sally K. Ride Elementary 42
11. Seneca Valley High 41
12. Captain James E. Daly Elementary 41
13. Clopper Mill Elementary 41
14. William B. Gibbs Jr. Elementary 37
15. Great Seneca Creek Elementary 37
16. Longview School 37
17. Lake Seneca Elementary 36
18. Fox Chapel Elementary 34
19. S. Christa Mcauliffe Elementary 33
20. Waters Landing Elementary 31

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Germantown

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Dr. Ronald E. Mcnair Elementary 77.6/100
  2. 2 Longview School 77.5/100
  3. 3 Northwest High 77.2/100
  4. 4 Kingsview Middle 77.0/100
  5. 5 William B. Gibbs Jr. Elementary 76.9/100

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Which Germantown school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Cedar Grove Elementary has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Germantown schools in this federal-data comparison at 57/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Germantown, MD? ▼

Germantown has 20 public schools with a total enrollment of 14,731 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 12.8:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.