High · Maryland
Northwest High
Northwest High, a public high school in Germantown, Maryland: grades 9–12, 2,300 students, 16.7 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Montgomery County Public Schools.
Size and class size
Compared with high schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 2,300
- Teachers (FTE)
- 137.6
- Students per teacher
- 16.7
- Grades
- 9–12
- High
More students per teacher than 60% of high schools in Maryland
Median 16.2 · 223 schools compared
More students per teacher than 66% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Larger than 94% of high schools in Maryland
Median 1,180 · 232 schools compared
Larger than 96% of high schools in the US
Median 414 · 22,064 schools compared
State test results
No state test results published for this school: state tests cover grades 3–8, and small groups are not published.
What it offers
- Grades
- High · Grades 9–12
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- Some virtual classes
- Area
- Large suburb
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Montgomery County Public Schools.
Location
- Address
- 13501 Richter Farm Rd, Germantown, MD 20874
- Phone
- (240)740-7100
- City or town
- Germantown
- County
- Montgomery County
Nearby high schools
The closest public high schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9–12 | 2,409 | 15.1 | |
| 9–12 | 2,100 | 16.1 | |
Watkins Mill HighFree meals for all | 9–12 | 1,577 | 13.8 |
| 9–12 | 2,441 | 13.9 | |
| 9–12 | 2,241 | 17.1 | |
| 9–12 | 1,870 | 18.5 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level; state test results are compared only within a state.
NCES 240048001040