Glenside El Sch

Set in Glenside, Pennsylvania, Glenside El Sch is a small primary school, run under Cheltenham SD. It enrolls 360 students across grades K through 4.

Cheltenham SD comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 4,140 students; Glenside El Sch is among them.

In terms of who attends, Glenside El Sch logs that the largest single group is Black at 40%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 35% White, 12% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 2% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 9% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Glenside El Sch records 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 46% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Glenside El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.1%, the actual is 64.1%, a residual of +6.0 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Montgomery County) reports that 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), Glenside El Sch is one campus in the mix.

Cheltenham HS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Glenside El Sch. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Glenside El Sch ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 57.5%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Looking at the recent track record. Glenside El Sch's enrollment has edged down 25% since 2018, when it stood at 478 (now 360). The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 5% to 12% over that span.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Glenside El Sch community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.