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Enrollment
698
Elementary
DISTRICT 623 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WISSAHICKON SD·NCES 420240006835
Shady Grove Elementary School
351 W Skippack Pike, Ambler, PA 19002 · (215) 619-8106 · Montgomery County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL698 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 87% of Pennsylvania public elementary 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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.5:1
48 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.5:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
29%
202 students
DISTRICT 23% · STATE 75%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 106 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 110 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 133 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 114 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 107 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 128 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (106) is 17% smaller than its 5th grade class (128).
Student demographics
57%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 60% · 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
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within Wissahickon SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
73.0%
PA avg 51.1% . +2.5pp since 2023
Math
78.9%
PA avg 43.0% . +7.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 73 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 79 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 73.0% | 78.9% |
| 2023-24 | 70.5% | 71.4% |
% 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
75.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.2%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 76% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 65% 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 Shady Grove Elementary School
Shady Grove Elementary School's state test result (75.7% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shady Grove Elementary School this school | 698 | 28.9% | 75.7% |
| Plymouth Elementary School Plymouth Meeting | 612 | 28.4% | 73.4% |
| McKinley School Elkins Park | 596 | 34.9% | 65.5% |
| Haine Elementary School Cranberry Twp | 791 | 25.8% | 69.3% |
| Sabold Elementary School Springfield | 641 | 30.6% | 83.6% |
| Lower Nazareth Elementary School Nazareth | 615 | 23.1% | 79.7% |
Matched among Pennsylvania elementary 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 Shady Grove Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Montgomery County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 75.7% | #187 of 1,396 | #25 of 91 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 78.9% | #126 of 1,511 ▲ 94 | #19 of 92 ▲ 13 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 73.0% | #161 of 1,511 ▲ 162 | #21 of 92 ▲ 25 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 698 | #141 of 1,638 | #4 of 96 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.5:1 | #1,168 of 1,528 | #83 of 96 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.9% | #392 of 1,531 | #51 of 96 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 28.9% | #1,341 of 1,600 | #53 of 95 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +14.2% | #141 of 450 | #9 of 30 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
698
+28 (+4%) vs 2020
+32% since 1990-91, when it was 530
Student : Teacher
14.5:1
was 12.2:1
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 | 698 | 48.3 | 14.5:1 | 29% (202) |
| 2023-24 | 710 | 48.7 | 14.6:1 | 28% (202) |
| 2022-23 | 664 | 48.8 | 13.6:1 | 25% (166) |
| 2020-21 | 670 | 55 | 12.2:1 | 25% (166) |
| 2017-18 | 611 | 47.3 | 12.9:1 | 29% (178) |
| 2015-16 | 593 | 43 | 13.8:1 | 34% (200) |
| 2010-11 | 500 | 39 | 12.8:1 | 19% (97) |
| 2000-01 | 448 | 33 | 13.6:1 | 11% (48) |
| 1990-91 | 530 | 40 | 13.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Shady Grove Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 14% (611 to 698); teachers up 2% (47.3 to 48.3).
About Shady Grove Elementary School
This page covers Shady Grove Elementary School, a high-enrollment elementary school in Ambler, Pennsylvania. It covers kindergarten through 5, with a total enrollment of 698 students. Enrollment is 58% higher than the average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania, which is about 443.
Wissahickon SD serves 5,181 students across 6 schools.
By race and ethnicity, Shady Grove Elementary School is 63% White. After that, the student body is 10% Asian, 10% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, and 8% Black. Census figures show Montgomery County is about 73% White. The chance that two students picked at random at Shady Grove Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 57%.
Shady Grove Elementary School counts 48.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 14.5 students for each one. Among elementary schools in Pennsylvania, the typical ratio is 13.1:1. About 29% of enrolled students meet the income rules for free or reduced-price lunch. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Montgomery County is 40%.
The allk12 Grade for Shady Grove Elementary School is A. Compared with Pennsylvania public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 87% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
The school's average proficiency rate on state tests is 75.7%. For its free or reduced-price lunch share, the predicted value is 65.2%.
Across Montgomery County, median household income is about $113,915, about 53% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 4%. A total of 160 public schools operate in Montgomery County, serving about 115,302 students.
Of nearby public schools, Blue Bell Elementary School is the closest, at about 1.2 miles. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Shady Grove Elementary School comes in 4th of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
The school's federal locale classification is Suburb: Large.
The student count in 2024-25 was 698, 4% above the 670 of 2020-21. The school's ratio rose from 12.2:1 to 14.5:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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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 Wissahickon SD
- Wissahickon SHSHigh · 1,480 students
- Wissahickon Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,208 students
- Stony Creek Elementary SchoolElementary · 643 students
- Lower Gwynedd Elementary SchoolElementary · 630 students
- Blue Bell Elementary SchoolElementary · 522 students
Other schools in Ambler
- Wissahickon SHSHigh · 1,480 students
- Wissahickon Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,208 students
- Lower Gwynedd Elementary SchoolElementary · 630 students
Other Shady Grove Elementary schools
5 other US public schools in 5 states are named Shady Grove Elementary. Shady Grove Elementary School is the largest of the 6.
- Shady Grove ElementaryGlen Allen, VA · 600 students
- Shady Grove Elementary SchoolBURNET, TX · 570 students
- Shady Grove ElementaryAdvance, NC · 492 students
- Shady Grove Elementary SchoolKELLER, TX · 378 students
- Shady Grove Elementary SchoolMonroe, LA · 195 students
Nearby schools
- Blue Bell Elementary School1.2 mi · 522
- Lower Gwynedd Elementary School2.0 mi · 630
- Wissahickon Middle School2.2 mi · 1,208
- Wissahickon SHS2.3 mi · 1,480
- Fort Washington Elementary School2.8 mi · 518
- Upper Dublin High School2.9 mi · 1,272
Frequently asked questions
About Shady Grove Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Shady Grove Elementary School?
Shady Grove Elementary School enrolls approximately 698 students in grades KG-05.
Is Shady Grove Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Shady Grove Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Shady Grove Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Shady Grove Elementary School is approximately 14.5:1 (48 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Shady Grove Elementary School?
Shady Grove Elementary School reports a student body of 63% White, 10% Hispanic, 8% Black, 10% Asian, 9% Two or more.
What district is Shady Grove Elementary School in?
Shady Grove Elementary School is part of Wissahickon SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.