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If you could change one rule at Bridle Path El Sch, what would it be?
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Enrollment
508
Elementary
DISTRICT 527 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NORTH PENN SD·NCES 421728000133
Bridle Path Elementary School
200 Bridle Path Rd, Lansdale, PA 19446 · (215) 362-2200 · Montgomery County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL508 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 70% 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.
- B-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
14.3:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
23%
116 students
DISTRICT 36% · 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 | 72 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 57 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 71 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 89 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 71 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 67 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 81 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (72) is 11% smaller than its 6th grade class (81).
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 66% · 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
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
67.4%
PA avg 51.1% . -3.6pp since 2023
Math
69.4%
PA avg 43.0% . +1.6pp 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 69 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 4 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% | 69.4% |
| 2023-24 | 71.0% | 67.8% |
% 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
71.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
67.8%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 71% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 68% 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 Bridle Path Elementary School
Bridle Path Elementary School's state test result (71.3% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bridle Path Elementary School this school | 508 | 22.8% | 71.3% |
| Gwynedd Square Elementary School Lansdale | 610 | 19.2% | 74.5% |
| Radio Park Elementary School State College | 424 | 19.3% | 76.0% |
| Shaull Elementary School Enola | 591 | 17.6% | 74.1% |
| East Ward Elementary School Downingtown | 549 | 30.4% | 72.6% |
| Hampden Elementary School Mechanicsburg | 538 | 29.6% | 71.2% |
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 Bridle Path Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Montgomery County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 71.3% | #270 of 1,396 | #37 of 91 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 69.4% | #283 of 1,511 ▲ 2 | #39 of 92 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 67.4% | #261 of 1,511 ▲ 48 | #36 of 92 ▲ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 508 | #508 of 1,638 | #36 of 96 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.3:1 | #1,128 of 1,528 | #78 of 96 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.4% | #247 of 1,531 | #34 of 96 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 22.8% | #1,409 of 1,600 | #65 of 95 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.2% | #1,001 of 1,045 | #58 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
508
+7 (+1%) vs 2020
-25% since 2000-01, when it was 677
Student : Teacher
14.3:1
was 13.9:1
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 | 508 | 35.7 | 14.3:1 | 23% (116) |
| 2023-24 | 510 | 36.1 | 14.2:1 | 23% (116) |
| 2022-23 | 503 | 37.8 | 13.3:1 | 23% (114) |
| 2020-21 | 501 | 36 | 13.9:1 | 16% (79) |
| 2017-18 | 514 | 35 | 14.7:1 | 19% (96) |
| 2015-16 | 569 | 34 | 16.7:1 | 17% (99) |
| 2010-11 | 576 | 36 | 16.0:1 | 8% (48) |
| 2000-01 | 677 | 39 | 17.4:1 | 2% (16) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Bridle Path Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 1% (514 to 508); teachers up 2% (35 to 35.7).
About Bridle Path Elementary School
Bridle Path Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school serving families in Lansdale, Pennsylvania. A federal count lists 508 students at the school, in kindergarten through 6.
The 17 schools in North Penn SD enroll 12,817 students altogether, Bridle Path Elementary School among them.
Bridle Path Elementary School is 55% White by enrollment. Beyond that, enrollment is 21% Asian, 9% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, and 6% Black. In Montgomery County overall, about 73% of residents are White. Bridle Path Elementary School's diversity index is 63%, against a US figure of 70%.
Teachers at the school number 35.7 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 14.3:1. On average, elementary schools in Pennsylvania have 13.1:1, compared with 14.3:1 here. The school's lunch program data list 23% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Montgomery County is 40%.
Bridle Path Elementary School is graded B+ by allk12, scoring above 70% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Bridle Path Elementary School would score about 67.8%. It scores 71.3%, 3.5 points above that figure.
Federal survey data for Montgomery County show that the median household income is $113,915, about 53% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 4% of residents are in poverty. Montgomery County is home to 160 public schools and about 115,302 public school students.
Kulp Elementary School is located about 1.4 miles from Bridle Path Elementary School. The five-mile area around Bridle Path Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools with test data average 61.0% proficiency; Bridle Path Elementary School posts 71.3%.
Bridle Path Elementary School is coded as Suburb: Large in federal locale data.
Compared with 2020-21, when it had 501 students, enrollment in 2024-25 was about the same at 508.
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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 North Penn SD
- North Penn SHSHigh · 3,165 students
- Penndale Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,171 students
- Pennfield Middle SchoolMiddle · 865 students
- Pennbrook Middle SchoolMiddle · 767 students
- Gwyn-Nor Elementary SchoolElementary · 663 students
- Knapp Elementary SchoolElementary · 633 students
Other schools in Lansdale
- North Penn SHSHigh · 3,165 students
- Penndale Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,171 students
- Knapp Elementary SchoolElementary · 633 students
- Gwynedd Square Elementary SchoolElementary · 610 students
- Walton Farm Elementary SchoolElementary · 566 students
- Oak Park Elementary SchoolElementary · 526 students
Nearby schools
- Kulp Elementary School1.4 mi · 583
- Knapp Elementary School1.5 mi · 633
- Penndale Middle School2.1 mi · 1,171
- Montgomery Elementary School2.2 mi · 611
- Oak Park Elementary School2.2 mi · 526
- Butler Elementary School2.3 mi · 757
Frequently asked questions
About Bridle Path Elementary SchoolHow large is Bridle Path Elementary School?
Bridle Path Elementary School enrolls approximately 508 students in grades KG-06.
What age range does Bridle Path Elementary School serve?
Bridle Path Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 06.
How many teachers does Bridle Path Elementary School have?
Bridle Path Elementary School employs 36 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.3:1.
What is the student diversity at Bridle Path Elementary School?
Student demographics at Bridle Path Elementary School are roughly 55% White, 7% Hispanic, 6% Black, 21% Asian, 9% Two or more.
What district is Bridle Path Elementary School in?
Bridle Path Elementary School is part of North Penn SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.