Enrollment
310
Elementary
DISTRICT 362 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHELTENHAM SD·NCES 420576003252
Myers Elementary School
7609 Montgomery Ave, Elkins Park, PA 19027 · (215) 517-4540 · Montgomery County
GRADES KG–04ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL310 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 78% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats 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
13.2:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.4:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
55%
171 students
DISTRICT 50% · STATE 75%
Community
0
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 | 48 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 66 | 21% |
| Grade 2 | 64 | 21% |
| Grade 3 | 68 | 22% |
| Grade 4 | 64 | 21% |
This year's kindergarten class (48) is 25% smaller than its 4th grade class (64).
Student demographics
68%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within Cheltenham SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
64.8%
PA avg 51.1% . +2.8pp since 2023
Math
61.6%
PA avg 43.0% . -3.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 65 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 62 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 64.8% | 61.6% |
| 2023-24 | 62.0% | 64.8% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
66.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.0%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+12.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 54% 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%.
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 Myers Elementary School
Myers Elementary School's state test result (66.1% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Myers Elementary School this school | 310 | 55.2% | 66.1% |
| Cheltenham Elementary School Cheltenham | 406 | 57.6% | 42.8% |
| Wyncote Elementary School Wyncote | 373 | 43.7% | 65.0% |
| Glenside Elementary School Glenside | 360 | 45.6% | 64.1% |
| Willow Hill School Willow Grove | 362 | 45.9% | 68.6% |
| Middle Smithfield Elementary School East Stroudsburg | 420 | 57.1% | 40.6% |
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 Myers Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Montgomery County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 66.1% | #413 of 1,396 | #51 of 91 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 61.6% | #494 of 1,511 ▼ 131 | #60 of 92 ▼ 16 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 64.8% | #310 of 1,511 ▲ 252 | #41 of 92 ▲ 23 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 310 | #1,212 of 1,638 | #88 of 96 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.2:1 | #816 of 1,528 | #60 of 96 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.8% | #139 of 1,531 | #16 of 96 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 55.2% | #905 of 1,600 | #21 of 95 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.2% | #508 of 1,045 | #35 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
310
+17 (+6%) vs 2020
-35% since 1990-91, when it was 476
Student : Teacher
13.2:1
was 12.7:1
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 | 310 | 23.5 | 13.2:1 | 55% (171) |
| 2023-24 | 309 | 24 | 12.9:1 | 55% (171) |
| 2022-23 | 302 | 24 | 12.6:1 | 51% (154) |
| 2020-21 | 293 | 23 | 12.7:1 | 47% (139) |
| 2017-18 | 357 | 25 | 14.3:1 | 26% (93) |
| 2015-16 | 377 | 26 | 14.5:1 | 28% (107) |
| 2010-11 | 359 | 28 | 12.8:1 | 19% (67) |
| 2000-01 | 398 | 25 | 15.9:1 | 10% (41) |
| 1990-91 | 476 | 29 | 16.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Myers Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 13% (357 to 310); teachers down 6% (25 to 23.5).
About Myers Elementary School
Myers Elementary School is an elementary school in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, according to federal school records. The school has 310 students in 2024-25 across kindergarten through 4. That compares with an average of about 443 students for elementary schools in Pennsylvania.
Cheltenham SD is responsible for 7 schools, Myers Elementary School included, with 4,140 students in all.
No group is above 50% at Myers Elementary School; the largest is Black, at 49%. It is also 22% White, 14% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, and 5% Asian. Montgomery County's residents are about 9% Black, 40 points below the school's share. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 68%.
The school has 23.5 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 13.2 students per teacher. The 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania is close to this figure. Of all students at Myers Elementary School, 55% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That rate is above the 40% average among public schools in Montgomery County.
Among Pennsylvania public elementary schools, Myers Elementary School outscored 78%, which works out to an A- on the allk12 Grade.
The school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 66.1%. For its free or reduced-price lunch share, the predicted value is 54.0%.
The county, Montgomery County, is where the school is located. Median household income comes to about $113,915, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 53% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 4%. The county has 160 public schools and about 115,302 students.
Measured in a straight line, Elkins Park School is about 0.7 miles from Myers Elementary School. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On proficiency, Myers Elementary School is ahead of the 34.6% nearby average, ranking 1st of 8.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 310, compared with 293 in 2020-21.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about open houses, carpools, and field trips at Myers Elementary School. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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 Cheltenham SD
- Cheltenham High SchoolHigh · 1,450 students
- Cedarbrook Middle SchoolMiddle · 672 students
- Elkins Park SchoolMiddle · 569 students
- Cheltenham Elementary SchoolElementary · 406 students
- Wyncote Elementary SchoolElementary · 373 students
- Glenside Elementary SchoolElementary · 360 students
Other schools in Elkins Park
- McKinley SchoolElementary · 596 students
- Elkins Park SchoolMiddle · 569 students
Other Myers Elementary schools
6 other US public schools in 6 states are named Myers Elementary. Myers Elementary School is the 7th largest of the 7.
- Myers Elementary SchoolGainesville, GA · 524 students
- Myers Elementary SchoolGRAND BLANC, MI · 479 students
- Myers Elementary SchoolSAN ANTONIO, TX · 459 students
- Myers Elementary SchoolYukon, OK · 397 students
- Myers Elementary SchoolSalem, OR · 342 students
Nearby schools
- Elkins Park School0.7 mi · 569
- Ellwood School1.0 mi · 292
- Cheltenham Elementary School1.0 mi · 406
- Rowen William School1.3 mi · 296
- Eugenio Maria DE Hostos CS1.3 mi · 631
- ASPIRA Bilingual Cyber CS1.3 mi · 1,038
Frequently asked questions
About Myers Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Myers Elementary School?
Myers Elementary School enrolls approximately 310 students in grades KG-04.
What age range does Myers Elementary School serve?
Myers Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 04.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Myers Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Myers Elementary School is approximately 13.2:1 (24 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Myers Elementary School?
Myers Elementary School reports a student body of 22% White, 14% Hispanic, 49% Black, 5% Asian, 10% Two or more.
Who oversees Myers Elementary School?
Myers Elementary School is overseen by Cheltenham SD in Montgomery County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.