Rachel Carson Elementary
Gaithersburg, MD · Elementary School · Grades -1-5
Rachel Carson Elementary is a elementary school in Gaithersburg, MD with 698 students enrolled and a 64% proficiency rate. Part of Montgomery County Public Schools. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
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About This School
Rachel Carson Elementary is a elementary school located in Gaithersburg, Maryland. The school serves 698 students in grades -1-5. The student-to-teacher ratio is 17.5:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 64% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading.
27% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Rachel Carson Elementary is part of the Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland.
How This School Compares
Rachel Carson Elementary has 698 students enrolled, making it smaller than the average school in Montgomery County Public Schools (772 students). Its 64% proficiency rate is 13 percentage points above the district average of 52%. Compared to the Maryland state average of 49%, the school performs 15 points higher.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Rachel Carson Elementary has 698 students enrolled in grades -1-5. The student-to-teacher ratio is 17.5:1.
According to EDFacts data, 64% of students at Rachel Carson Elementary meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Rachel Carson Elementary is part of the Montgomery County Public Schools in Gaithersburg, Maryland. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.
All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.
School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.
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.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.