Colonial MS

Colonial MS is an intermediate school of well-populated scale in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, part of Colonial SD, serveing 1,268 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 594 students each, so Colonial MS sits 113% above that benchmark.

Colonial SD runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 5,657 students. Colonial MS is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Colonial MS logs that the largest single group is White, at 70% of enrollment; the rest reads as 11% Black, 7% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, 6% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with Montgomery County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, Colonial MS logs 93 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.7:1. The state averages about 13.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 26% of students at Colonial MS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Montgomery County's rate of about 40%.

With demographic context factored in, Colonial MS sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 66.3%; this one delivers 65.5%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Montgomery County) shows that 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 Colonial MS is one.

Nearest neighbor: Central Montco Technical High School, around 0.3 miles off. 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), Colonial MS ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 35.6%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 21%: 1,051 students in 2018 compared to 1,268 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 74% to 70%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 11.7:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 today.

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