Cole Manor El Sch

Cole Manor El Sch, a close-knit primary school in Norristown, Pennsylvania, run under Norristown Area SD, teaches 347 students, covering grades K through 4. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Cole Manor El Sch sits 22% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 12 schools in Norristown Area SD (7,617 students total), Cole Manor El Sch accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Cole Manor El Sch reports that the largest single group is Hispanic at 41%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 39% Black, 10% multiracial, 7% White, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 7% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Cole Manor El Sch has 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.8:1. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 102% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Montgomery County's rate of about 40%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Cole Manor El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.0%, the actual is 43.1%, a residual of +9.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Montgomery County indicate median household income runs about $113,915, 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 Cole Manor El Sch is one.

The closest other public school is Eisenhower MS, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Cole Manor El Sch at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 32.9%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Cole Manor El Sch has ticked down 25%, going from 460 students in 2018 to 347 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 18% to 7%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 in 2025.

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