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Enrollment
1,616
High
DISTRICT 667 · STATE 738
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PERKIOMEN VALLEY SD·NCES 421893003328
Perkiomen Valley High School
509 Gravel Rd, Collegeville, PA 19426 · (610) 489-1230 · Montgomery County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL1,616 STUDENTS
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Scored higher than 87% of Pennsylvania public high schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+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 high schools
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
121 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.0:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
22%
357 students
DISTRICT 25% · STATE 75%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 387 | 24% |
| Grade 10 | 413 | 26% |
| Grade 11 | 429 | 27% |
| Grade 12 | 387 | 24% |
Student demographics
31%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 36% · 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
Based on grade levels within Perkiomen Valley SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
83.2%
PA avg 51.1% . -4.3pp since 2023
Math
66.8%
PA avg 43.0% . +12.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 83 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 67 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 13 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 83.2% | 66.8% |
| 2023-24 | 87.5% | 53.9% |
% 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
72.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
68.1%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 72% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 68% 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 Perkiomen Valley High School
Perkiomen Valley High School's state test result (72.3% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Perkiomen Valley High School this school | 1,616 | 22.1% | 72.3% |
| Owen J Roberts High School Pottstown | 1,810 | 21.9% | 64.5% |
| Mt Lebanon SHS Pittsburgh | 1,772 | 18.7% | 86.6% |
| Haverford SHS Havertown | 1,994 | 21.4% | 79.6% |
| Nazareth Area High School Nazareth | 1,607 | 26.2% | 63.4% |
| Downingtown HS West Campus Downingtown | 1,796 | 18.9% | 71.8% |
Matched among Pennsylvania high 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 Perkiomen Valley High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Montgomery County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 72.3% | #58 of 576 | #6 of 23 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 66.8% | #69 of 626 ▲ 60 | #6 of 23 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 83.2% | #46 of 626 ▼ 13 | #5 of 23 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,616 | #65 of 713 | #8 of 28 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.3:1 | #254 of 601 | #9 of 22 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 31.1% | #297 of 604 | #22 of 22 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 22.1% | #578 of 619 | #18 of 23 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.6% | #189 of 373 | #2 of 6 |
Ranked against other public high 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
1,616
-177 (-10%) vs 2020
+90% since 1990-91, when it was 849
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
was 15.5:1
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 | 1,616 | 121.5 | 13.3:1 | 22% (357) |
| 2023-24 | 1,714 | 119.5 | 14.3:1 | 21% (357) |
| 2022-23 | 1,736 | 117.7 | 14.8:1 | 16% (271) |
| 2020-21 | 1,793 | 116 | 15.5:1 | 13% (228) |
| 2017-18 | 1,788 | 108.2 | 16.5:1 | 12% (215) |
| 2015-16 | 1,781 | 113 | 15.8:1 | 15% (269) |
| 2010-11 | 1,733 | 104 | 16.7:1 | 9% (158) |
| 2000-01 | 1,035 | 70 | 14.8:1 | 9% (92) |
| 1990-91 | 849 | 73 | 11.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Perkiomen Valley High School.
Since 2017-18: students down 10% (1,788 to 1,616); teachers up 12% (108.2 to 121.5).
About Perkiomen Valley High School
Perkiomen Valley High School is a large high school serving families in Collegeville, Pennsylvania. It enrolls 1,616 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are 9 through 12. That puts enrollment 119% above the 738-student average for high schools in Pennsylvania.
The district for Perkiomen Valley High School is Perkiomen Valley SD, with 7 schools and 4,672 students.
A large majority of enrollment at Perkiomen Valley High School is White, at 82%. It is also 6% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 4% Black, and 2% multiracial. Montgomery County's residents are about 73% White, 9 points below the school's share. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 31%.
The school has 121.5 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 13.3 students per teacher. The 12.8:1 average for high schools in Pennsylvania is close to this figure. Of all students at Perkiomen Valley High School, 22% are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That rate is below the 40% average among public schools in Montgomery County.
Perkiomen Valley High School holds an A allk12 Grade, placing it above 87% of Pennsylvania public high schools.
A school with Perkiomen Valley High School's lunch-eligibility share in Pennsylvania is predicted to score 68.1%. Perkiomen Valley High School scores 72.3%, 4.2 points above that line.
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.
Evergreen Elementary School is about 0.3 miles away, making it the nearest public school. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Perkiomen Valley High School's average proficiency of 72.3% compares with 72.8% for its nearest scored neighbors.
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 1,616, compared with 1,793 in 2020-21. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (13.3:1) than in 2020-21 (15.5:1).
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about open houses, carpools, and field trips at Perkiomen Valley High 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 Perkiomen Valley SD
- Perkiomen Valley MS-EastMiddle · 592 students
- Skippack Elementary SchoolElementary · 557 students
- Perkiomen Valley MS-WestMiddle · 509 students
- Schwenksville Elementary SchoolElementary · 474 students
- Evergreen Elementary SchoolElementary · 465 students
- South Elementary SchoolElementary · 459 students
Other schools in Collegeville
- Perkiomen Valley MS-EastMiddle · 592 students
- Skippack Elementary SchoolElementary · 557 students
- Evergreen Elementary SchoolElementary · 465 students
- Arrowhead Elementary SchoolElementary · 426 students
- South East Youth Dev CenterHigh · 1 students
Nearby schools
- Evergreen Elementary School0.3 mi · 465
- Perkiomen Valley MS-East0.4 mi · 592
- South Elementary School1.4 mi · 459
- Skippack Elementary School2.0 mi · 557
- South East Youth Dev Center2.0 mi · 1
- Schwenksville Elementary School2.2 mi · 474
Frequently asked questions
About Perkiomen Valley High SchoolHow large is Perkiomen Valley High School?
Perkiomen Valley High School enrolls approximately 1,616 students in grades 09-12.
Is Perkiomen Valley High School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Perkiomen Valley High School is a high school covering grades 09-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Perkiomen Valley High School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Perkiomen Valley High School is approximately 13.3:1 (121 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Perkiomen Valley High School?
Student demographics at Perkiomen Valley High School are roughly 82% White, 6% Hispanic, 4% Black, 5% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees Perkiomen Valley High School?
Perkiomen Valley High School is overseen by Perkiomen Valley SD in Montgomery County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.