E M Crouthamel El Sch
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedWhat 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.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About E M Crouthamel El Sch
As a small K-5 school in Souderton, Pennsylvania, E M Crouthamel El Sch serves 325 students from grades K through 5, run under Souderton Area SD. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 27% below typical.
Souderton Area SD runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 5,974 students. E M Crouthamel El Sch is one of those campuses.
On demographics, E M Crouthamel El Sch reports that the most-represented group is White (54%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 28% Hispanic, 8% Black, 5% multiracial, 4% Asian. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 73%.
On the income-and-resources front, E M Crouthamel El Sch logs 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. Around 60% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Montgomery County runs at roughly 40%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, E M Crouthamel El Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 52.0%; this one delivers 48.6%.
Zooming out to the 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 the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Montgomery County's 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 115,302 students), E M Crouthamel El Sch is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is Souderton CS Collaborative, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, E M Crouthamel El Sch comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 63.2%.
E M Crouthamel El Sch operates from a residential location.
Looking at the recent track record. E M Crouthamel El Sch's enrollment has declined 13% since 2018, when it stood at 373 (now 325). Over the same period, the White share edged down from 65% to 54%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 11.3:1 in 2018 to 9.1:1 today.
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