Skippack El Sch

Skippack El Sch operates as an average-sized elementary school in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, overseen by Perkiomen Valley SD. Current enrollment sits at 557 students spanning grades K through 5. That puts it 26% larger than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 443 students.

Perkiomen Valley SD comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 4,672 students; Skippack El Sch is among them.

Demographically, Skippack El Sch reports that nearly all students (80%) are White. The remainder breaks down as 7% Asian, 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, 3% Black.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 18% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Montgomery County (around 40%), the school's rate is south of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Skippack El Sch tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 69.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 76.6%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Montgomery County indicate median household earnings sit near $113,915, 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Montgomery County runs 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 115,302 students), of which Skippack El Sch is one.

The closest other public school is South East Youth Dev Center, roughly 0.8 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Skippack El Sch. On composite proficiency, Skippack El Sch comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 69.9%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Skippack El Sch has edged down 22%, going from 714 students in 2018 to 557 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 85% to 80%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.0:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 in 2025.

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