Marlborough El Sch

Marlborough El Sch operates as an average-sized K-5 school in Green Lane, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Upper Perkiomen SD. Current enrollment sits at 409 students spanning grades K through 3.

Upper Perkiomen SD runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 3,072 students. Marlborough El Sch is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Marlborough El Sch records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (82%); the rest looks like 9% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Black. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 73%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Marlborough El Sch has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.7:1. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 33% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Marlborough El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 63.3%, the actual is 71.3%, a residual of +8.1 points.

In the area at large, Montgomery County reports that median household income runs about $113,915, 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Marlborough El Sch is one of 160 public schools in Montgomery County (combined enrollment of about 115,302 students).

Nearest neighbor: Upper Perkiomen HS, around 2.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Marlborough El Sch. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Marlborough El Sch ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 62.9%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Marlborough El Sch's enrollment has fell 42% since 2018, when it stood at 709 (now 409). The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 5% to 9% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 today.

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