[1][2] The early 1900s brought educated government workers to developing areas of Montgomery County such as Silver Spring, Bethesda, and Chevy Chase.

A two-room schoolhouse on Bradley Lane in Chevy Chase served residents from 1898 until 1917, when a permanent school building was constructed.

[3] In that year, a two-story brick building was built on Rosemary Street by a contractor named Roy W. Poole of Frederick, Maryland, at a cost of $20,000 in county funds.

[8] Chevy Chase Elementary was awarded a National Blue Ribbon for excellence during the 1993–1994 school year.

[10] On November 21, 2016, the Montgomery County Board of Education approved boundaries that would send CCES students, including rising 6th-graders, to the new Silver Creek Middle School.

It serves 4th and 5th graders on an accelerated track, and the program at CCES is open to anyone in the attendance zone for Bethesda-Chevy Chase, Walter Johnson, or Walt Whitman high schools.