Salford Hills El Sch

As a mid-tier K-5 school in Harleysville, Pennsylvania, Salford Hills El Sch hosts 449 students from grades K through 5, overseen by Souderton Area SD.

Salford Hills El Sch is one of 9 schools operated by Souderton Area SD, a district that educates 5,974 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Salford Hills El Sch shows that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 6% Asian, 4% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 73% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 16% of students at Salford Hills El Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is south of Montgomery County's rate of about 40%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Salford Hills El Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 70.7%; this one delivers 78.2%.

Across the wider county, census data for Montgomery County shows median household income runs about $113,915, 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 Salford Hills El Sch is one.

Nearest neighbor: Vernfield El Sch, around 1.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Salford Hills El Sch. On composite proficiency, Salford Hills El Sch comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 65.7%.

Salford Hills El Sch operates from an outlying location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 459 students in 2018 compared to 449 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 92% to 85%.

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