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Perkiomen Valley HS
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PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedBeatsExpectations
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Perkiomen Valley HS
Perkiomen Valley HS operates as a well-populated high school in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Perkiomen Valley SD. Current enrollment sits at 1,616 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 119% larger than the state mean of about 738.
Perkiomen Valley SD comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 4,672 students; Perkiomen Valley HS is among them.
Demographically, Perkiomen Valley HS shows that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest consists of 6% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 4% Black, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Montgomery County as a whole is about 73% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 121 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.3:1. The state averages about 12.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 22% of students at Perkiomen Valley HS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is noticeably below Montgomery County's rate of about 40%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Perkiomen Valley HS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 68.1%, the actual is 72.3%, a residual of +4.2 points.
Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Montgomery County put the typical household earns roughly $113,915 per year, roughly 53% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Montgomery County runs 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 115,302 students), of which Perkiomen Valley HS is one.
Evergreen El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Perkiomen Valley HS ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 72.8%.
Perkiomen Valley HS operates from a bedroom-community location.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 10%: 1,788 students in 2018 compared to 1,616 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 in 2025.
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