About Montgomery County Public Schools
Montgomery County Public Schools is a public school system serving Montgomery County, Maryland, based in Rockville. It serves 159,181 students across 211 schools spanning PreK–12, and is classified as a suburb: large district. By enrollment it is the #1 largest of Maryland’s 25 school systems.
Size and structure
Montgomery County Public Schools enrolls 159,181 students in 211 schools — an average of about 754 students per school. It serves grades PreK–12 and ranks #1 of 25 statewide by enrollment.
Who the district serves
Student race and ethnicity in Montgomery County Public Schools, from the NCES Common Core of Data (159,181 students reported):
For economically-disadvantaged, English-learner, and special-education shares, plus school-by-school detail, see the federal sources in the full-data section.
Teachers & staff
Montgomery County Public Schools employs about 11,574 full-time-equivalent teachers for a student–teacher ratio of 13.8:1 — below the Maryland average of about 14.1:1, meaning comparatively smaller classes. Total district staff is roughly 23,986.
Counselor and librarian/media counts are not published at the district level in the current NCES release; see the federal full-data links for staffing detail.
How Maryland funds schools
District-level per-pupil spending and the local/state/federal revenue split for Montgomery County Public Schools are published in the federal school-finance files — see the full-data links below for the current figures.
Report card & state results
The Maryland School Report Card rates each school on a 1-to-5 star scale across academic achievement, academic progress, English-language progress and school quality and student success (plus graduation for high schools). Look up Montgomery County Public Schools on the Maryland School Report Card.
Accreditation status
Maryland does not run a single statewide accreditation mandate for public districts; accreditation is voluntary, pursued mainly through the Middle States Association and in some cases Cognia. Look up Montgomery County Public Schools in the free Cognia registry.
Montgomery County Public Schools vs. Maryland
See every Maryland district side by side in the Maryland directory.
Look up Montgomery County Public Schools’s full data
These official sources carry the district-level detail — finances, discipline, equity, test scores, boundaries. Direct links for this district (via its NCES ID):