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Enrollment
438
Elementary
DISTRICT 494 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·LOWER MERION SD·NCES 421416003287
Merion Elementary School
549 S Bowman Ave, Merion Station, PA 19066 · (610) 645-1470 · Montgomery County
GRADES KG–04ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL438 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 98% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Pennsylvania public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
11.3:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.1:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
15%
65 students
DISTRICT 16% · STATE 75%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 77 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 79 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 103 | 24% |
| Grade 3 | 85 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 94 | 21% |
This year's kindergarten class (77) is 18% smaller than its 4th grade class (94).
Student demographics
55%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 57% · STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
89.5%
PA avg 51.1% . -1.9pp since 2023
Math
87.1%
PA avg 43.0% . -1.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 90 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 87 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 1 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 89.5% | 87.1% |
| 2023-24 | 91.4% | 88.1% |
% Proficient or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: PSSA + Keystone. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of PA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
90.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
71.3%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+18.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 90% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 71% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 19 points, placing it in Pennsylvania's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Merion Elementary School
Merion Elementary School's state test result (90.0% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Merion Elementary School this school | 438 | 14.8% | 90.0% |
| Worcester Elementary School Lansdale | 441 | 13.2% | 84.7% |
| Arrowhead Elementary School Collegeville | 426 | 16.0% | 76.0% |
| Cynwyd School Bala Cynwyd | 446 | 14.6% | 82.2% |
| General Nash Elementary School Harleysville | 465 | 17.8% | 72.9% |
| Wayne Elementary School Wayne | 525 | 16.6% | 80.4% |
Matched among Pennsylvania elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Merion Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Montgomery County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 90.0% | #11 of 1,396 | #1 of 91 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 87.1% | #36 of 1,511 ▼ 18 | #4 of 92 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 89.5% | #7 of 1,511 ▲ 4 | #1 of 92 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 438 | #729 of 1,638 | #55 of 96 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.3:1 | #258 of 1,528 | #18 of 96 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 55.1% | #441 of 1,531 | #58 of 96 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 14.8% | #1,512 of 1,600 | #87 of 95 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -27.2% | #147 of 1,045 | #6 of 61 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
438
-141 (-24%) vs 2020
-24% since 1990-91, when it was 575
Student : Teacher
11.3:1
was 12.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 438 | 38.8 | 11.3:1 | 15% (65) |
| 2023-24 | 442 | 40.9 | 10.8:1 | 15% (65) |
| 2022-23 | 446 | 38.3 | 11.6:1 | 13% (59) |
| 2020-21 | 579 | 46 | 12.6:1 | 10% (56) |
| 2017-18 | 602 | 43.1 | 14.0:1 | 10% (59) |
| 2015-16 | 614 | 42 | 14.6:1 | 8% (49) |
| 2010-11 | 493 | 36 | 13.7:1 | 5% (25) |
| 2000-01 | 524 | 37 | 14.2:1 | 1% (7) |
| 1990-91 | 575 | 34 | 16.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Merion Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 27% (602 to 438); teachers down 10% (43.1 to 38.8).
About Merion Elementary School
Merion Elementary School sits in Merion Station, Pennsylvania, and is classified as an elementary school. It serves 438 students in kindergarten through 4.
Lower Merion SD has 8,533 students in 11 schools, and Merion Elementary School is one of those schools.
At Merion Elementary School, White students make up 64% of the student body. Next come 14% Asian, 11% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, and 4% Black. The county population is about 73% White. The school's diversity index is 55%, meaning two students picked at random have a 55% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Merion Elementary School employs 38.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 11.3:1. The school has fewer students per teacher than the 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania. Merion Elementary School's free or reduced-price lunch eligibility rate is 15%. The rate at public schools in Montgomery County averages 40%, higher than here.
Measured against Pennsylvania public elementary schools, Merion Elementary School receives an A+. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Merion Elementary School is in the top 10% of Pennsylvania schools on the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure. Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the model predicts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 71.3%. The school's actual rate is 90.0%, 18.7 points higher.
Merion Elementary School is located in Montgomery County, where the median household income is $113,915, about 53% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 4%. Besides Merion Elementary School, Montgomery County has 159 other public schools.
The closest public school to Merion Elementary School is Cynwyd School, about 1.1 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Merion Elementary School is 1st of 6 on proficiency.
Under the NCES locale system, Merion Elementary School is Suburb: Large.
Enrollment has fallen by 141 students since 2020-21, to 438. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio fell to 11.3:1, from 12.6:1.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss school safety, transportation, and start times at Merion Elementary School. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Montgomery County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
867,573
Census ACS
Median income
$113,915
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
53%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
160
115,302 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Lower Merion SD
- Lower Merion High SchoolHigh · 1,674 students
- Harriton SHSHigh · 1,239 students
- Black Rock Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,077 students
- Bala-Cynwyd Middle SchoolMiddle · 794 students
- Welsh Valley Middle SchoolMiddle · 788 students
- Penn Wynne SchoolElementary · 621 students
Nearby schools
- Cynwyd School1.1 mi · 446
- Bala-Cynwyd Middle School1.1 mi · 794
- Samuel Gompers School1.1 mi · 238
- Ad Prima CS1.2 mi · 602
- The Science Leadership Academy at Beeber1.3 mi · 532
- Lower Merion High School1.4 mi · 1,674
Frequently asked questions
About Merion Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Merion Elementary School?
Merion Elementary School enrolls approximately 438 students in grades KG-04.
Is Merion Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Merion Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-04.
How many teachers does Merion Elementary School have?
Merion Elementary School employs 39 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.3:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Merion Elementary School?
At Merion Elementary School, the student body is approximately 64% White, 6% Hispanic, 4% Black, 14% Asian, 11% Two or more.
Is Merion Elementary School public or private?
Merion Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Lower Merion SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.