Public school / High
Winston Churchill High
Potomac, Maryland
- NCES ID
- 240048000956
- District
- Montgomery County Public Schools
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Winston Churchill High is a public high school in Potomac, Maryland, run by Montgomery County Public Schools. It enrols 2,234 students — the 1192nd largest of 1,425 public schools in Maryland.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
2,234
Teachers
120.0
Students per teacher
18.6
Free or reduced-price lunch
10.4%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Montgomery County Public Schools
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Montgomery Blair High3,204 students
- 2Walter Johnson High2,942 students
- 3Wheaton High2,599 students
- 4Northwest High2,484 students
- 5Gaithersburg High2,436 students
- 6Richard Montgomery High2,390 students
- 7Bethesda-Chevy Chase High2,335 students
- 8Clarksburg High2,251 students
- Enrollment+313.3%
- Teachers+215.8%
- Students per teacher+26.5%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−81.5%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory