Enrollment
325
Elementary
DISTRICT 419 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SOUDERTON AREA SD·NCES 422187003357
E M Crouthamel Elementary School
143 S School Ln, Souderton, PA 18964 · (215) 723-5949 · Montgomery County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL325 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 34% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
9.1:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.7:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
60%
194 students
DISTRICT 32% · STATE 75%
Community
0
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 | 61 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 52 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 51 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 63 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 41 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 57 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (61) is 7% larger than its 5th grade class (57).
Student demographics
61%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 45% · 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
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PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
40.8%
PA avg 51.1% . -5.8pp since 2023
Math
51.9%
PA avg 43.0% . +9.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 41 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 52 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 9 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 40.8% | 51.9% |
| 2023-24 | 46.6% | 42.5% |
% 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
48.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.0%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 52% 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 E M Crouthamel Elementary School
E M Crouthamel Elementary School's state test result (48.6% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| E M Crouthamel Elementary School this school | 325 | 59.7% | 48.6% |
| Lincolnway Elementary School York | 406 | 61.1% | 43.6% |
| Yorkshire Elementary School York | 317 | 56.2% | N/A |
| Trimmer Elementary School York | 421 | 61.8% | 54.5% |
| Pequea Elementary School Willow Street | 336 | 58.0% | 62.3% |
| Orendorf Elementary School Manchester | 350 | 58.0% | 55.5% |
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 E M Crouthamel Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Montgomery County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 48.6% | #905 of 1,396 | #81 of 91 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 51.9% | #754 of 1,511 ▲ 160 | #76 of 92 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 40.8% | #989 of 1,511 ▲ 10 | #83 of 92 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 325 | #1,155 of 1,638 | #84 of 96 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.1:1 | #25 of 1,528 | #1 of 96 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 61.3% | #293 of 1,531 | #39 of 96 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 59.7% | #823 of 1,600 | #18 of 95 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.9% | #524 of 1,045 | #36 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
325
-5 (-2%) vs 2020
-8% since 1990-91, when it was 353
Student : Teacher
9.1:1
was 9.2:1
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 | 325 | 35.6 | 9.1:1 | 60% (194) |
| 2023-24 | 338 | 35.3 | 9.6:1 | 57% (194) |
| 2022-23 | 323 | 36.4 | 8.9:1 | 46% (147) |
| 2020-21 | 330 | 36 | 9.2:1 | 52% (170) |
| 2017-18 | 373 | 33.1 | 11.3:1 | 48% (178) |
| 2015-16 | 387 | 33 | 11.7:1 | 45% (176) |
| 2010-11 | 339 | 25 | 13.6:1 | 33% (112) |
| 2000-01 | 372 | 24 | 15.5:1 | 15% (55) |
| 1990-91 | 353 | 24 | 14.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for E M Crouthamel Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 13% (373 to 325); teachers up 8% (33.1 to 35.6).
About E M Crouthamel Elementary School
E M Crouthamel Elementary School is a small elementary school located in Souderton, Pennsylvania. It reports enrollment of 325 students in kindergarten through 5. On average, elementary schools in Pennsylvania enroll around 443, and this school is 27% below that mark.
Souderton Area SD has 9 schools and 5,974 students, and E M Crouthamel Elementary School is one of those schools.
About 54% of the student body at E M Crouthamel Elementary School is White. Enrollment also includes 28% Hispanic, 8% Black, 5% multiracial, and 4% Asian. Among people living in Montgomery County, the White share is about 73%. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 61, compared with 70 nationally.
The school lists 35.6 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-to-teacher ratio of 9.1:1. Compared with the 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania, this school's ratio is lower. Free or reduced-price lunch covers 60% of the student body. Compared with the 40% average for public schools in Montgomery County, the school's rate is higher.
E M Crouthamel Elementary School earns a C on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 34% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, E M Crouthamel Elementary School falls in the middle 80% of Pennsylvania schools: 48.6% actual against 52.0% predicted.
In Montgomery County, home to about 867,573 people, median household income comes to about $113,915, 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 4% of people live in poverty. There are 160 public schools in the county, enrolling about 115,302, E M Crouthamel Elementary School among them.
The closest school to E M Crouthamel Elementary School is Souderton CS Collaborative, located about 0.5 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. E M Crouthamel Elementary School's average proficiency of 48.6% compares with 63.2% for its nearest scored neighbors.
The school's locale code, Suburb: Large, means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment in 2024-25 was 325, close to the 330 recorded in 2020-21.
E M Crouthamel Elementary School has a community page on allk12 for topics such as pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
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
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Other schools in Souderton Area SD
- Souderton Area High SchoolHigh · 2,121 students
- Indian Valley Middle SchoolMiddle · 731 students
- Indian Crest Middle SchoolMiddle · 607 students
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- Franconia Elementary SchoolElementary · 426 students
Other schools in Souderton
- Souderton Area High SchoolHigh · 2,121 students
- Indian Crest Middle SchoolMiddle · 607 students
- Franconia Elementary SchoolElementary · 426 students
- West Broad Street Elementary SchoolElementary · 378 students
- Souderton CS CollaborativeElementary · 250 students
Nearby schools
- Souderton CS Collaborative0.5 mi · 250
- West Broad Street Elementary School1.3 mi · 378
- Indian Crest Middle School1.3 mi · 607
- Franconia Elementary School2.1 mi · 426
- Hatfield Elementary School2.3 mi · 501
- Souderton Area High School2.5 mi · 2,121
Frequently asked questions
About E M Crouthamel Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at E M Crouthamel Elementary School?
E M Crouthamel Elementary School enrolls approximately 325 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does E M Crouthamel Elementary School serve?
E M Crouthamel Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
How many teachers does E M Crouthamel Elementary School have?
E M Crouthamel Elementary School employs 36 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 9.1:1.
How diverse is E M Crouthamel Elementary School?
E M Crouthamel Elementary School reports a student body of 54% White, 28% Hispanic, 8% Black, 4% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees E M Crouthamel Elementary School?
E M Crouthamel Elementary School is overseen by Souderton Area SD in Montgomery County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.