Plymouth El Sch

Plymouth El Sch is one of the reasonably sized K-5 schools in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, part of Colonial SD, with 612 students on its rolls from grades K through 3. That puts it 38% larger than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 443 students.

Colonial SD runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 5,657 students. Plymouth El Sch is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Plymouth El Sch lists that 61% of the student body identifies as White; the rest comes out to 13% Black, 9% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 7% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 73%.

On the resource side, On paper, Plymouth El Sch has 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Plymouth El Sch higher than the state norm the norm. About 28% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Montgomery County runs at roughly 40%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Plymouth El Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 65.4%; this one delivers 73.4%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Montgomery County indicate median household income runs about $113,915, roughly 53% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Montgomery County's 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 115,302 students), Plymouth El Sch is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Colonial MS, around 1.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Plymouth El Sch ranks 4th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 62.1%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 9%: 563 students in 2018 compared to 612 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 13% to 7% across the same window.

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