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Gwynedd Square El Sch
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Gwynedd Square El Sch
Gwynedd Square El Sch operates as an average-sized elementary campus in Lansdale, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within North Penn SD. Current enrollment sits at 610 students spanning grades K through 6. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Gwynedd Square El Sch sits 38% bigger than that benchmark.
North Penn SD runs 17 schools in total, collectively educating 12,817 students. Gwynedd Square El Sch is one of those campuses.
On demographics, Gwynedd Square El Sch shows that White students make up the majority at 57%. Other groups include 23% Asian, 7% multiracial, 7% Black, 6% Hispanic. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 73%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school reports having 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 19% of students at Gwynedd Square El Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Montgomery County runs at roughly 40%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, Gwynedd Square El Sch tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 69.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 74.5%.
In the broader community, community-level numbers for Montgomery County indicate median household earnings sit near $113,915, about 53% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Montgomery County's 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 115,302 students), Gwynedd Square El Sch is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: North Penn SHS, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Gwynedd Square El Sch. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Gwynedd Square El Sch ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 63.5%.
Gwynedd Square El Sch operates from a commuter-belt location.
Over the past 7-year window. Gwynedd Square El Sch's enrollment has climbed 5% since 2018, when it stood at 580 (now 610). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 today.
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