Rachel Carson Elementary School (Gaithersburg)

Rachel Carson Elementary School is a public elementary school located in Gaithersburg, Maryland. The school serves grades through K-5 and is part of Montgomery County Public Schools. The school was founded in 1990, and originally educated grades K-6. The school currently has 950 students that are at the school. The school is named after the conservationist, Rachel Carson.
In 2012, RCES was named a Maryland Blue Ribbon School.
The current principal of the school is Deneise Hammond.
The school
Rachel Carson Elementary School was built in 1990. The first 502 students to attend the school arrived 3 weeks later.
Many local residents argued that the new school should be named "Kentlands Elementary School" after the Kentlands Estate, which was turned into a nature preserve, and later a neighborhood, where most of RCES' students come from. Eventually the Montgomery Board of Education decided on the name "Rachel Carson Elementary School."
Feeder patterns
After the students graduate from 5th Grade, the students attend Lakelands Park Middle School.

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