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If you could change one rule at Arrowhead El Sch, what would it be?
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Enrollment
426
Elementary
DISTRICT 424 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·METHACTON SD·NCES 421425006845
Arrowhead Elementary School
232 Level Rd, Collegeville, PA 19426 · (610) 489-5000 · Montgomery County
GRADES KG–04ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL426 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 79% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Pennsylvania public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
12.6:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.4:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
16%
68 students
DISTRICT 21% · STATE 75%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 75 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 86 | 20% |
| Grade 2 | 83 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 94 | 22% |
| Grade 4 | 88 | 21% |
This year's kindergarten class (75) is 15% smaller than its 4th grade class (88).
Student demographics
50%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 55% · STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Arrowhead Elementary School→Skyview Upper Elementary School→Arcola Intrmd School→Methacton High School
Based on grade levels within Methacton SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
67.4%
PA avg 51.1% . -5.5pp since 2023
Math
77.8%
PA avg 43.0% . +1.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 78 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 67.4% | 77.8% |
| 2023-24 | 72.9% | 76.1% |
% Proficient or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: PSSA + Keystone. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
76.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
70.8%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 76% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 71% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Pennsylvania's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Arrowhead Elementary School
Arrowhead Elementary School's state test result (76.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arrowhead Elementary School this school | 426 | 16.0% | 76.0% |
| Worcester Elementary School Lansdale | 441 | 13.2% | 84.7% |
| Merion Elementary School Merion Station | 438 | 14.8% | 90.0% |
| General Nash Elementary School Harleysville | 465 | 17.8% | 72.9% |
| Wayne Elementary School Wayne | 525 | 16.6% | 80.4% |
| Cynwyd School Bala Cynwyd | 446 | 14.6% | 82.2% |
Matched among Pennsylvania elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Arrowhead Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Montgomery County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 76.0% | #180 of 1,396 | #23 of 91 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 77.8% | #139 of 1,511 ▲ 1 | #23 of 92 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 67.4% | #259 of 1,511 ▲ 2 | #35 of 92 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 426 | #773 of 1,638 | #59 of 96 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.6:1 | #646 of 1,528 | #52 of 96 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 49.8% | #545 of 1,531 | #67 of 96 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 16.0% | #1,492 of 1,600 | #84 of 95 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +5.2% | #299 of 450 | #25 of 30 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
426
+44 (+12%) vs 2020
-7% since 1990-91, when it was 457
Student : Teacher
12.6:1
was 12.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 426 | 33.7 | 12.6:1 | 16% (68) |
| 2023-24 | 454 | 34.7 | 13.1:1 | 15% (68) |
| 2022-23 | 426 | 32.7 | 13.0:1 | 15% (65) |
| 2020-21 | 382 | 30 | 12.7:1 | 9% (36) |
| 2017-18 | 405 | 33.6 | 12.1:1 | 7% (28) |
| 2015-16 | 289 | 25 | 11.6:1 | 13% (38) |
| 2010-11 | 328 | 27 | 12.2:1 | 6% (19) |
| 2000-01 | 422 | 31 | 13.6:1 | 4% (16) |
| 1990-91 | 457 | 30 | 15.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Arrowhead Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 5% (405 to 426); teachers unchanged (33.6 to 33.7).
About Arrowhead Elementary School
In Collegeville, Pennsylvania, part of Montgomery County, Arrowhead Elementary School is an elementary school. Students in kindergarten through 4 attend, and enrollment is 426 students.
Methacton SD enrolls 4,581 students in 7 schools, including Arrowhead Elementary School.
By race and ethnicity, Arrowhead Elementary School is 68% White. It is also 15% Asian, 9% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, and 2% Black. By the diversity index, Arrowhead Elementary School comes in at 50%.
Teachers at the school number 33.7 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 12.6:1. Across elementary schools in Pennsylvania, the average ratio is about 13.1:1. The school's lunch program data list 16% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. The average for public schools in Montgomery County is 40%.
Measured against Pennsylvania public elementary schools, Arrowhead Elementary School receives an A-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
The BeatsExpectations prediction for Arrowhead Elementary School is 70.8%, and its average proficiency rate on state tests is 76.0%.
According to the American Community Survey, in Montgomery County, median household income is about $113,915, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 53% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 4%. Arrowhead Elementary School is one of 160 public schools in Montgomery County, which together enroll about 115,302 students.
Nearby, Oaks Elementary School is about 1.6 miles away. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Arrowhead Elementary School comes in 3rd of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Large: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Arrowhead Elementary School had 382 students in 2020-21 and 426 in 2024-25, a 12% increase.
Posts about school safety, transportation, and start times are welcome on this page. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
Montgomery County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
867,573
Census ACS
Median income
$113,915
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
53%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
160
115,302 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Methacton SD
- Methacton High SchoolHigh · 1,499 students
- Skyview Upper Elementary SchoolMiddle · 695 students
- Arcola Intrmd SchoolMiddle · 692 students
- Worcester Elementary SchoolElementary · 441 students
- Woodland Elementary SchoolElementary · 427 students
- Eagleville Elementary SchoolElementary · 401 students
Other schools in Collegeville
- Perkiomen Valley High SchoolHigh · 1,616 students
- Perkiomen Valley MS-EastMiddle · 592 students
- Skippack Elementary SchoolElementary · 557 students
- Evergreen Elementary SchoolElementary · 465 students
- South East Youth Dev CenterHigh · 1 students
Other Arrowhead Elementary schools
10 other US public schools in 11 states are named Arrowhead Elementary. Arrowhead Elementary School is the 6th largest of the 11.
- Arrowhead Elementary SchoolLewis Center, OH · 648 students
- ARROWHEAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLEAST SETAUKET, NY · 562 students
- Arrowhead Elementary SchoolGLENDALE, AZ · 515 students
- Arrowhead ElementaryVirginia Beach, VA · 500 students
- Arrowhead Elementary SchoolAURORA, CO · 499 students
Nearby schools
- Oaks Elementary School1.6 mi · 591
- Arcola Intrmd School1.7 mi · 692
- Skyview Upper Elementary School1.7 mi · 695
- Eagleville Elementary School2.4 mi · 401
- South Elementary School2.7 mi · 459
- Methacton High School2.9 mi · 1,499
Frequently asked questions
About Arrowhead Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Arrowhead Elementary School?
Arrowhead Elementary School enrolls approximately 426 students in grades KG-04.
What age range does Arrowhead Elementary School serve?
Arrowhead Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 04.
How many students per teacher at Arrowhead Elementary School?
Approximately 12.6:1 students per teacher at Arrowhead Elementary School.
How diverse is Arrowhead Elementary School?
Arrowhead Elementary School reports a student body of 68% White, 9% Hispanic, 2% Black, 15% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Arrowhead Elementary School in?
Arrowhead Elementary School is part of Methacton SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.