Enrollment
358
Elementary
DISTRICT 494 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LOWER MERION SD·NCES 421416000482
Belmont Hills Elementary School
200 School Street, Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004 · (610) 645-1420 · Montgomery County
GRADES KG–04ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL358 STUDENTS
A+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 96% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats 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
11.0:1
33 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.1:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
15%
55 students
DISTRICT 16% · STATE 75%
Community
0
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 | 54 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 78 | 22% |
| Grade 2 | 68 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 82 | 23% |
| Grade 4 | 76 | 21% |
This year's kindergarten class (54) is 29% smaller than its 4th grade class (76).
Student demographics
48%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 57% · 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
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PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
78.8%
PA avg 51.1% . -7.7pp since 2023
Math
86.1%
PA avg 43.0% . +3.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 79 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 86 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 78.8% | 86.1% |
| 2023-24 | 86.5% | 82.8% |
% 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
85.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
71.0%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+14.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 85% 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 Belmont Hills Elementary School
Belmont Hills Elementary School's state test result (85.2% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belmont Hills Elementary School this school | 358 | 15.4% | 85.2% |
| Hillendale Elementary School Chadds Ford | 346 | 10.4% | 86.8% |
| Bethel Memorial Elementary School Bethel Park | 342 | 21.9% | 72.7% |
| Bradford Woods Elementary School Bradford Woods | 343 | 8.5% | 91.0% |
| Foster Elementary School Pittsburgh | 304 | 12.2% | 81.5% |
| Peebles Elementary School Pittsburgh | 400 | 12.0% | 81.4% |
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 Belmont Hills Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Montgomery County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 85.2% | #34 of 1,396 | #5 of 91 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 86.1% | #42 of 1,511 ▲ 8 | #5 of 92 ▲ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 78.8% | #81 of 1,511 ▼ 44 | #9 of 92 ▼ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 358 | #1,030 of 1,638 | #80 of 96 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.0:1 | #197 of 1,528 | #13 of 96 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 48.3% | #576 of 1,531 | #69 of 96 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 15.4% | #1,503 of 1,600 | #85 of 95 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -29.7% | #113 of 1,045 | #5 of 61 |
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
358
-97 (-21%) vs 2020
-2% since 2000-01, when it was 365
Student : Teacher
11.0:1
was 10.3:1
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 | 358 | 32.6 | 11.0:1 | 15% (55) |
| 2023-24 | 344 | 32.3 | 10.7:1 | 16% (55) |
| 2022-23 | 344 | 33 | 10.4:1 | 16% (54) |
| 2020-21 | 455 | 44 | 10.3:1 | 13% (60) |
| 2017-18 | 509 | 41.7 | 12.2:1 | 12% (62) |
| 2015-16 | 487 | 41 | 11.9:1 | 10% (51) |
| 2010-11 | 459 | 38 | 12.1:1 | 9% (41) |
| 2000-01 | 365 | 27 | 13.5:1 | 8% (31) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Belmont Hills Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 30% (509 to 358); teachers down 22% (41.7 to 32.6).
About Belmont Hills Elementary School
Families in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, are served by Belmont Hills Elementary School, a low-enrollment elementary school. It serves 358 students in kindergarten through 4.
Belmont Hills Elementary School is one of the 11 schools that make up Lower Merion SD (8,533 students in total).
Roughly 70% of students at Belmont Hills Elementary School are White. The rest of enrollment is 12% Asian, 8% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, and 5% Black. That is close to the 73% White share among all Montgomery County residents. Belmont Hills Elementary School's diversity index is 48%, against a US figure of 70%.
Belmont Hills Elementary School's 32.6 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 11.0:1. That is lower than the 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania. Eligibility for subsidized school meals is 15%. That is 25 points below the 40% average for public schools in Montgomery County.
Belmont Hills Elementary School is graded A+ by allk12, scoring above 96% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Belmont Hills Elementary School is +14.2 points: 85.2% actual, 71.0% predicted.
Census Bureau estimates for Montgomery County show that the median household income is $113,915, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 53% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 4%. There are 160 public schools in Montgomery County, enrolling about 115,302 students in all.
The nearest other public school, Dobson James School, is about 0.7 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, Belmont Hills Elementary School is 2nd of 9 nearby schools with test data.
The school's locale code, Suburb: Large, means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
2024-25 enrollment was 358, a 21% decrease from 455 in 2020-21.
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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 Lower Merion SD
- Lower Merion High SchoolHigh · 1,674 students
- Harriton SHSHigh · 1,239 students
- Black Rock Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,077 students
- Bala-Cynwyd Middle SchoolMiddle · 794 students
- Welsh Valley Middle SchoolMiddle · 788 students
- Penn Wynne SchoolElementary · 621 students
Other schools in Bala Cynwyd
- Bala-Cynwyd Middle SchoolMiddle · 794 students
- Cynwyd SchoolElementary · 446 students
Other Belmont Hills Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 2 states are named Belmont Hills Elementary. Belmont Hills Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 3.
- Belmont Hills Elementary SchoolBensalem, PA · 580 students
- Belmont Hills Elementary SchoolSmyrna, GA · 267 students
Nearby schools
- Dobson James School0.7 mi · 229
- Bala-Cynwyd Middle School0.7 mi · 794
- Cynwyd School0.8 mi · 446
- Welsh Valley Middle School1.0 mi · 788
- Roxborough High School1.3 mi · 613
- Green Woods CS1.4 mi · 699
Frequently asked questions
About Belmont Hills Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Belmont Hills Elementary School?
Belmont Hills Elementary School enrolls approximately 358 students in grades KG-04.
Is Belmont Hills Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Belmont Hills Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-04.
How many students per teacher at Belmont Hills Elementary School?
Approximately 11.0:1 students per teacher at Belmont Hills Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Belmont Hills Elementary School?
Student demographics at Belmont Hills Elementary School are roughly 70% White, 5% Hispanic, 5% Black, 12% Asian, 8% Two or more.
What district is Belmont Hills Elementary School in?
Belmont Hills Elementary School is part of Lower Merion SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.