Montgomery County Public Schools
Silver Spring, MD · 208 schools · 160,554 students
Largest Schools
Schools ranked by enrollment. Proficiency data from EDFacts where available.
Other Districts in Maryland
196 schools · 131,133 students · 42% proficiency
175 schools · 111,082 students · 49% proficiency
123 schools · 84,452 students · 52% proficiency
154 schools · 75,995 students · 41% proficiency
Frequently Asked Questions
Montgomery County Public Schools has 208 schools serving 160,554 students. The average proficiency rate across the district is 52%. The average graduation rate is 79%.
Montgomery County Public Schools operates 208 public schools, including Montgomery Blair High, Walter Johnson High, Wheaton High, Northwest High, Gaithersburg High and others. The full school list is shown above with enrollment and grade-level details.
The average graduation rate across high schools in Montgomery County Public Schools is approximately 79% (EDFacts district-level data, most recent reporting year). Individual school graduation rates may vary; this is a district-wide adjusted-cohort graduation rate.
The largest school in Montgomery County Public Schools is Montgomery Blair High with 3,204 students.
Montgomery County Public Schools serves 160,554 students across 208 schools in MD, per the latest NCES Common Core of Data enrollment.
Montgomery County Public Schools's average proficiency rate of 52% (math and reading combined, EDFacts) is around average for US public school districts. "Good" depends on what you value — proficiency is one signal; enrollment trends, class size, graduation rates, and district resources also matter. Check individual school pages for granular data.
Student-teacher ratios are reported at the school level by NCES, not aggregated at the district level in our dataset. Open any individual school page in Montgomery County Public Schools to see its specific student-teacher ratio. The US national average is approximately 16:1 for public schools.
All data comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data (enrollment, school count, demographics) and EDFacts assessment results (proficiency rates, graduation rates). Proficiency and graduation rates are reported at the district level. Both are federal sources used by the US Department of Education.
School performance data is sourced from NCES enrollment records and EDFacts proficiency and graduation rate assessments.
The this entity record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
Every number on this page links back to NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.
Practical use of this page is in combination with the comparison and ranking pages elsewhere on the site, which surface the same data for this entity’s peers within U.S. public schools and districts. A single-entity reading without peer context can be misleading when an entity is an outlier on one axis but typical on another.