Maryland parents are keenly interested in the quality of public schools. Niche.com, which rates everything in education, has created a ranking of what it says are the schools with the best teachers in the state.
Most are in Montgomery County.
According to Niche.com, the rankings are based on seven factors: academic grades, parent/student surveys on teachers, teacher absenteeism, teacher salary index, teachers in their first or second year, average teacher salary and the student-teacher ratio.
Read more on how this ranking was calculated.
- Cold Spring Elementary School, Potomac, Montgomery County Public Schools
- Poolesville High School, Montgomery County Public Schools
- Wayside Elementary School, Potomac, Montgomery County Public Schools
- Frost Elementary School, Allegany County Public Schools
- Farmland Elementary School, Montgomery County Public Schools
- Thomas W. Pyle Middle School, Bethesda, Montgomery County Public Schools
- Dufief Elementary School, Gaithersburg, Montgomery County Public Schools
- Seven Locks Elementary School, Bethesda, Montgomery County Public Schools
- Fallsmead Elementary School, Rockville, Montgomery County Public Schools
- Bannockburn Elementary School, Bethesda, Montgomery County Public Schools
- Burning Tree Elementary School, Bethesda, Montgomery County Public Schools
- Herbert Hoover Middle School, Potomac, Montgomery County Public Schools
- Waverly Elementary School, Ellicott City, Howard County Public Schools
- Westland Middle School, Bethesda, Montgomery County Public Schools
- Travilah Elementary School, North Potomac, Montgomery County Public Schools
- Carderock Springs Elementary School, Bethesda, Montgomery County Public Schools
- Darnestown Elementary School, Gaithersburg, Montgomery County Public Schools
- Stone Mill Elementary School, North Potomac, Montgomery County Public Schools
- Winston Churchill High School, Potomac, Montgomery County Public Schools
- Wyngate Elementary School, Bethesda, Montgomery County Public Schools
- Beverly Farms Elementary School, Potomac, Montgomery County Public Schools
- Diamond Elementary School, Gaithersburg, Montgomery County Public Schools
- Chevy Chase Elementary School, Chevy Chase, Montgomery County Public Schools
- Rosa M. Parks Middle School, Olney, Montgomery County Public Schools
- Westbrook Elementary School, Bethesda, Montgomery County Public Schools
- Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School, Bethesda, Montgomery County Public Schools
- Candlewood Elementary School, Rockville, Montgomery County Public Schools
- Bradley Hills Elementary School, Bethesda, Montgomery County Public Schools
- Takoma Park Middle School, Takoma Park, Montgomery County Public Schools
- Spark M. Matsunaga Elementary School, Germantown, Montgomery County Public Schools
- Wilson Wims Elementary School, Clarksburg, Montgomery County Public Schools
- Cabin John Middle School, Potomac, Montgomery County Public Schools
- Bells Mill Elementary School, Potomac, Montgomery County Public Schools
- Bethesda Elementary School, Bethesda, Montgomery County Public Schools
- Centerville Elementary School, Frederick, Frederick County Public Schools
- Garrett Park Elementary School, Kensington, Montgomery County Public Schools
- Robert Frost Middle School, Rockville, Montgomery County Public Schools
- Triadelphia Ridge Elementary School, Ellicott City, Howard County Public Schools
- Clarksburg Elementary School, Clarksburg, Montgomery County Public Schools
- North Bethesda Middle School, North Bethesda, Montgomery County Public Schools
- Burleigh Manor Middle School, Ellicott City, Howard County Public Schools
- Stephen Decatur Middle School, Berlin, Worcester County Public Schools
- Kensington Parkwood Elementary School, Kensington, Montgomery County Public Schools
- Walt Whitman High School, Bethesda, Montgomery County Public Schools
- North Chevy Chase Elementary School, Chevy Chase, Montgomery County Public Schools
- Oakland Terrace Elementary School, Silver Spring, Montgomery County Public Schools
- Dr. Charles R. Drew Elementary School, Silver Spring, Montgomery County Public Schools
- Thomas S. Wootton High School, Rockville, Montgomery County Public Schools
- Somerset Elementary School, Chevy Chase, Montgomery County Public Schools
- Julius West Middle School, Rockville, Montgomery County Public Schools
To see the story by Deb Belt as it originally appeared on Patch.com, click here.
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