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What's one thing Oak Ridge El Sch gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
420
Elementary
DISTRICT 419 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SOUDERTON AREA SD·NCES 422187009965
Oak Ridge Elementary School
465 Moyer Rd, Harleysville, PA 19438 · (215) 256-6633 · Montgomery County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL420 STUDENTS
B-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 48% 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.
- C-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
12.6:1
33 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.7:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
20%
82 students
DISTRICT 32% · 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 | 66 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 69 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 69 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 70 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 62 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 84 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (66) is 21% smaller than its 5th grade class (84).
Student demographics
45%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 45% · 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
59.8%
PA avg 51.1% . -5.5pp since 2023
Math
58.9%
PA avg 43.0% . -2.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 60 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 59 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 59.8% | 58.9% |
| 2023-24 | 65.3% | 61.7% |
% 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
63.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.2%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% 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 Oak Ridge Elementary School
Oak Ridge Elementary School's state test result (63.8% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oak Ridge Elementary School this school | 420 | 19.5% | 63.8% |
| Park Forest Elementary School State College | 419 | 18.6% | 75.3% |
| South Hanover Elementary School Hershey | 371 | 19.4% | 79.7% |
| Penn Wood Elementary School West Chester | 438 | 18.7% | 70.7% |
| Lincoln Elementary School Pittsburgh | 414 | 20.5% | 81.3% |
| Fern Hill Elementary School West Chester | 408 | 22.3% | 68.4% |
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 Oak Ridge Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Montgomery County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 63.8% | #478 of 1,396 | #63 of 91 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 58.9% | #557 of 1,511 ▼ 102 | #68 of 92 ▼ 15 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 59.8% | #439 of 1,511 ▲ 21 | #57 of 92 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 420 | #799 of 1,638 | #62 of 96 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.6:1 | #648 of 1,528 | #53 of 96 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 44.7% | #662 of 1,531 | #80 of 96 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 19.5% | #1,444 of 1,600 | #71 of 95 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.9% | #328 of 1,045 | #22 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
420
-34 (-7%) vs 2020
-23% since 1990-91, when it was 543
Student : Teacher
12.6:1
was 12.3:1
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 | 420 | 33.2 | 12.6:1 | 20% (82) |
| 2023-24 | 405 | 33.7 | 12.0:1 | 20% (82) |
| 2022-23 | 435 | 36 | 12.1:1 | 17% (76) |
| 2020-21 | 454 | 37 | 12.3:1 | 22% (99) |
| 2017-18 | 518 | 36.4 | 14.3:1 | 19% (96) |
| 2015-16 | 490 | 34 | 14.4:1 | 19% (95) |
| 2010-11 | 527 | 35 | 15.1:1 | 10% (52) |
| 2000-01 | 591 | 32 | 18.5:1 | 2% (13) |
| 1990-91 | 543 | 35 | 15.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Oak Ridge Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 19% (518 to 420); teachers down 9% (36.4 to 33.2).
About Oak Ridge Elementary School
Families in Harleysville, Pennsylvania, are served by Oak Ridge Elementary School, a mid-sized elementary school. It has an enrollment of 420 students in kindergarten through 5.
Souderton Area SD operates 9 schools. Combined enrollment is 5,974 students.
About 73% of the student body at Oak Ridge Elementary School is White. Smaller groups are 9% Black, 7% Asian, 6% Hispanic, and 4% multiracial. Montgomery County residents are about 73% White, a similar share. A diversity index of 45% means there is a 45% chance two randomly chosen students at Oak Ridge Elementary School are from different groups.
Oak Ridge Elementary School reports a ratio of 12.6 students per teacher, from 33.2 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania is about 13.1:1. Lunch program data show 20% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price meals. The rate at public schools in Montgomery County averages 40%, higher than here.
Oak Ridge Elementary School holds a B- allk12 Grade, placing it above 48% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools.
Oak Ridge Elementary School's actual average proficiency rate across its state test results (63.8%) and its predicted rate (69.2%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of Pennsylvania schools.
In Montgomery County, where the school is located, the median household earns about $113,915 a year, roughly 53% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Oak Ridge Elementary School, Montgomery County has 160 public schools.
Indian Valley Middle School is the nearest public school to Oak Ridge Elementary School, about 1.3 miles away. Oak Ridge Elementary School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. Oak Ridge Elementary School comes in 7th of 8 nearby schools on average proficiency.
The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Large).
In 2020-21, Oak Ridge Elementary School enrolled 454 students. By 2024-25, that number had fallen to 420.
Parents, students, and staff can share information on athletics, class schedules, and weather closures here. 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 Souderton Area SD
- Souderton Area High SchoolHigh · 2,121 students
- Indian Valley Middle SchoolMiddle · 731 students
- Indian Crest Middle SchoolMiddle · 607 students
- Vernfield Elementary SchoolElementary · 517 students
- Salford Hills Elementary SchoolElementary · 449 students
- Franconia Elementary SchoolElementary · 426 students
Other schools in Harleysville
- Indian Valley Middle SchoolMiddle · 731 students
- General Nash Elementary SchoolElementary · 465 students
- Salford Hills Elementary SchoolElementary · 449 students
Other Oak Ridge Elementary schools
10 other US public schools in 8 states are named Oak Ridge Elementary. Oak Ridge Elementary School is the 9th largest of the 11.
- Oak Ridge Elementary SchoolPalos Hills, IL · 774 students
- Oak Ridge ElementaryOak Ridge, NC · 712 students
- Oak Ridge Elementary SchoolLUBBOCK, TX · 678 students
- Oak Ridge Elementary SchoolCONROE, TX · 608 students
- Oak Ridge ElementaryChino Hills, CA · 521 students
Nearby schools
- Indian Valley Middle School1.3 mi · 731
- Souderton Area High School2.7 mi · 2,121
- Vernfield Elementary School3.0 mi · 517
- General Nash Elementary School3.1 mi · 465
- South East Youth Dev Center3.1 mi · 1
- Walton Farm Elementary School3.4 mi · 566
Frequently asked questions
About Oak Ridge Elementary SchoolHow large is Oak Ridge Elementary School?
Oak Ridge Elementary School enrolls approximately 420 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Oak Ridge Elementary School serve?
Oak Ridge Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Oak Ridge Elementary School have?
Oak Ridge Elementary School employs 33 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.6:1.
What is the student diversity at Oak Ridge Elementary School?
Student demographics at Oak Ridge Elementary School are roughly 73% White, 6% Hispanic, 9% Black, 7% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Oak Ridge Elementary School?
Oak Ridge Elementary School is overseen by Souderton Area SD in Montgomery County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.