Jenkintown El Sch

Jenkintown El Sch, a moderately sized K-5 school in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Jenkintown SD, serves 401 students, covering grades K through 6.

Jenkintown SD runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 730 students. Jenkintown El Sch is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Jenkintown El Sch logs that White students make up the majority at 71%. Other groups include 9% Black, 9% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 2% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with Montgomery County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.3:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 26% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Montgomery County (around 40%), the school's rate is south of typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Jenkintown El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 66.6%, the actual is 68.4%, a residual of +1.8 points.

In the broader community, Montgomery County reports that median household income runs about $113,915, 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Jenkintown El Sch is one of 160 public schools in Montgomery County (combined enrollment of about 115,302 students).

Nearest neighbor: Jenkintown Middle/High School, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Jenkintown El Sch. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Jenkintown El Sch ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 57.1%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Five-year trend. Jenkintown El Sch's enrollment has edged up 6% since 2018, when it stood at 377 (now 401). The White share of enrollment declined from 77% to 71% over that span.

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