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Hallowell El Sch
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Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedWhat this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 50 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 54 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 57% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 62% 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 Hallowell El Sch
Hallowell El Sch operates as a mid-tier K-5 school in Horsham, Pennsylvania, overseen by Hatboro-Horsham SD. Current enrollment sits at 438 students spanning grades K through 5.
Hallowell El Sch is one of 6 schools operated by Hatboro-Horsham SD, a district that teaches 4,179 students overall.
On the student-mix side, Hallowell El Sch records that the largest single group is White, at 68% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 17% Hispanic, 5% Black, 5% Asian, 5% multiracial.
On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. About 37% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Hallowell El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.8%, the actual is 56.8%, a residual of -5.0 points.
In the area at large, census data for Montgomery County shows the typical household earns roughly $113,915 per year, roughly 53% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Montgomery County's 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 115,302 students), Hallowell El Sch is one campus in the mix.
Keith Valley MS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hallowell El Sch. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Hallowell El Sch at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 55.6%.
Hallowell El Sch operates from a residential location.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 24%: 354 students in 2018 compared to 438 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 77% to 68% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 in 2025.
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