Ridge Park El Sch

Ridge Park El Sch is a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, run under Colonial SD. The school caters to 525 students in grades K through 3.

Ridge Park El Sch is one of 7 schools operated by Colonial SD, a district that serves 5,657 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Ridge Park El Sch logs that White students make up the majority at 71%; the rest reads as 8% Hispanic, 7% Black, 7% Asian, 6% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Ridge Park El Sch shows 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.3:1. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 23% of students at Ridge Park El Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Montgomery County (around 40%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Ridge Park El Sch tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 67.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 75.7%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Montgomery County put median household income runs about $113,915, about 53% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Montgomery County runs 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 115,302 students), of which Ridge Park El Sch is one.

Plymouth-Whitemarsh SHS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Ridge Park El Sch. On composite proficiency, Ridge Park El Sch comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 78.3%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Ridge Park El Sch's enrollment has climbed 20% since 2018, when it stood at 438 (now 525). The White share of enrollment fell from 79% to 71% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 9.3:1 today.

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