Cedarbrook MS

Cedarbrook MS is a middle-grades school of moderately sized scale in Wyncote, Pennsylvania, overseen by Cheltenham SD, works with 672 students in grades 7 through 8.

Cheltenham SD runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 4,140 students. Cedarbrook MS is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Cedarbrook MS records that Black students make up the majority at 55%. Beyond that, the school shows 22% White, 9% multiracial, 9% Hispanic, 5% Asian. By comparison, Montgomery County as a whole is about 9% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 59 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.4:1. The state averages around 13.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 50% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Montgomery County's rate of about 40%.

After controlling for student poverty, Cedarbrook MS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.4%, the actual is 43.3%, a residual of -13.0 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Montgomery County shows median household earnings sit near $113,915, about 53% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Montgomery County runs 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 115,302 students), of which Cedarbrook MS is one.

Cheltenham HS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Cedarbrook MS ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 43.9%.

Cedarbrook MS operates from a commuter-belt location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Cedarbrook MS has fell 4%, going from 698 students in 2018 to 672 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 32% to 22% over that span.

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