Montgomery El Sch

Montgomery El Sch is a reasonably sized K-5 school in North Wales, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within North Penn SD. The school caters to 611 students in grades K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 38% above typical.

Montgomery El Sch is one of 17 schools operated by North Penn SD, a district that teaches 12,817 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Montgomery El Sch logs that the most-represented group is White (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school records 29% Asian, 8% multiracial, 6% Black, 4% Hispanic. By comparison, Montgomery County as a whole is about 73% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Montgomery El Sch has 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.7:1. The state averages about 13.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 18% 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 meaningfully below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Montgomery El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.9%, the actual is 74.8%, a residual of +5.0 points.

Across the wider county, Montgomery County reports that the typical household earns roughly $113,915 per year, about 53% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Montgomery County runs 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 115,302 students), of which Montgomery El Sch is one.

Butler El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Montgomery El Sch at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 68.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Looking at the recent track record. Montgomery El Sch's enrollment has shrank 9% since 2018, when it stood at 670 (now 611). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 58% to 53% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 today.

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