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Enrollment
446
Elementary
DISTRICT 494 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LOWER MERION SD·NCES 421416003286
Cynwyd School
101 W Levering Mill Rd, Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004 · (610) 645-1430 · Montgomery County
GRADES KG–04ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL446 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 91% 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
12.1:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.1:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
15%
65 students
DISTRICT 16% · 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 | 66 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 82 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 100 | 22% |
| Grade 3 | 96 | 22% |
| Grade 4 | 102 | 23% |
This year's kindergarten class (66) is 35% smaller than its 4th grade class (102).
Student demographics
59%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
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
73.3%
PA avg 51.1% . -9.2pp since 2023
Math
82.1%
PA avg 43.0% . -1.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 73 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 82 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 9 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 73.3% | 82.1% |
| 2023-24 | 82.5% | 83.9% |
% 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
82.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
71.4%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 82% 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 Cynwyd School
Cynwyd School's state test result (82.2% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cynwyd School this school | 446 | 14.6% | 82.2% |
| Merion Elementary School Merion Station | 438 | 14.8% | 90.0% |
| Worcester Elementary School Lansdale | 441 | 13.2% | 84.7% |
| General Nash Elementary School Harleysville | 465 | 17.8% | 72.9% |
| Arrowhead Elementary School Collegeville | 426 | 16.0% | 76.0% |
| Wayne Elementary School Wayne | 525 | 16.6% | 80.4% |
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 Cynwyd School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Montgomery County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 82.2% | #75 of 1,396 | #13 of 91 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 82.1% | #85 of 1,511 ▼ 46 | #12 of 92 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 73.3% | #157 of 1,511 ▼ 70 | #20 of 92 ▼ 9 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 446 | #702 of 1,638 | #51 of 96 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.1:1 | #468 of 1,528 | #39 of 96 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 58.9% | #342 of 1,531 | #42 of 96 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 14.6% | #1,514 of 1,600 | #88 of 95 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.6% | #333 of 1,045 | #23 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
446
-114 (-20%) vs 2020
+7% since 1990-91, when it was 415
Student : Teacher
12.1:1
was 13.0:1
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 | 446 | 36.8 | 12.1:1 | 15% (65) |
| 2023-24 | 442 | 35.8 | 12.3:1 | 15% (65) |
| 2022-23 | 431 | 34.6 | 12.5:1 | 11% (47) |
| 2020-21 | 560 | 43 | 13.0:1 | 9% (51) |
| 2017-18 | 548 | 41.8 | 13.1:1 | 6% (34) |
| 2015-16 | 557 | 40 | 13.9:1 | 7% (37) |
| 2010-11 | 500 | 37 | 13.5:1 | 4% (22) |
| 2000-01 | 436 | 31 | 14.1:1 | 3% (13) |
| 1990-91 | 415 | 30 | 13.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Cynwyd School.
Since 2017-18: students down 19% (548 to 446); teachers down 12% (41.8 to 36.8).
About Cynwyd School
Cynwyd School is a public elementary school run by Lower Merion SD in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania. The school serves kindergarten through 4. Enrollment is 446 students.
Lower Merion SD has 11 schools; together they serve 8,533 students.
More than half of the students at Cynwyd School are White (61%). Beyond that, enrollment is 15% Asian, 10% multiracial, 9% Black, and 5% Hispanic. In Montgomery County overall, about 73% of residents are White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Cynwyd School scores 59%.
A staff of 36.8 full-time-equivalent teachers puts the student-to-teacher ratio at 12.1:1. Compared with the 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania, this school's ratio is lower. By family income, 15% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Compared with the 40% average for public schools in Montgomery County, the school's rate is lower.
Among Pennsylvania public elementary schools, Cynwyd School outscored 91%, which works out to an A on the allk12 Grade.
Cynwyd School sits between the top and bottom 10% of Pennsylvania schools on BeatsExpectations, with an actual average proficiency rate across its state test results of 82.2% and a predicted 71.4%.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Montgomery County show that median household income comes to about $113,915, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 53% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 4%. The county's public schools total 160, with about 115,302 students.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Bala-Cynwyd Middle School, is about 0.1 miles. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Among the 8 closest schools with test data, this one included, Cynwyd School ranks 4th on average proficiency.
Federal data place Cynwyd School in the Suburb: Large locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's student count decreased 20% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about athletics, class schedules, and weather closures at Cynwyd School. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
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
- Belmont Hills Elementary SchoolElementary · 358 students
Nearby schools
- Bala-Cynwyd Middle School0.1 mi · 794
- Belmont Hills Elementary School0.8 mi · 358
- Merion Elementary School1.1 mi · 438
- Samuel Gompers School1.3 mi · 238
- Penn Valley School1.4 mi · 542
- Welsh Valley Middle School1.4 mi · 788
Frequently asked questions
About Cynwyd SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Cynwyd School?
Cynwyd School enrolls approximately 446 students in grades KG-04.
What grades does Cynwyd School serve?
Cynwyd School serves grades KG-04.
How many teachers does Cynwyd School have?
Cynwyd School employs 37 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.1:1.
What is the student diversity at Cynwyd School?
Student demographics at Cynwyd School are roughly 61% White, 5% Hispanic, 9% Black, 15% Asian, 10% Two or more.
What district is Cynwyd School in?
Cynwyd School is part of Lower Merion SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.