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Enrollment
459
Elementary
DISTRICT 489 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PERKIOMEN VALLEY SD·NCES 421893003327
South Elementary School
200 E 3rd Ave, Trappe, PA 19426 · (610) 489-2991 · Montgomery County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL459 STUDENTS
A-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 84% 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
12.1:1
38 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.0:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
27%
122 students
DISTRICT 25% · 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 | 75 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 69 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 80 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 73 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 63 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 99 | 22% |
This year's kindergarten class (75) is 24% smaller than its 5th grade class (99).
Student demographics
45%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 36% · 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
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
69.5%
PA avg 51.1% . -7.9pp since 2023
Math
74.9%
PA avg 43.0% . +4.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 75 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 69.5% | 74.9% |
| 2023-24 | 77.4% | 70.0% |
% 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
75.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
66.2%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 75% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 66% 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 South Elementary School
South Elementary School's state test result (75.2% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Elementary School this school | 459 | 26.6% | 75.2% |
| East Coventry Elementary School Pottstown | 479 | 29.4% | 73.4% |
| Evergreen Elementary School Collegeville | 465 | 24.3% | 79.8% |
| North Wales Elementary School North Wales | 484 | 26.4% | 69.0% |
| Ridge Park Elementary School Conshohocken | 525 | 22.7% | 75.7% |
| Monroe Elementary School Boiling Springs | 512 | 30.3% | 59.8% |
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 South Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Montgomery County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 75.2% | #197 of 1,396 | #26 of 91 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 74.9% | #191 of 1,511 ▲ 54 | #29 of 92 ▲ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 69.5% | #221 of 1,511 ▼ 51 | #28 of 92 ▼ 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 459 | #656 of 1,638 | #45 of 96 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.1:1 | #472 of 1,528 | #40 of 96 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 45.2% | #642 of 1,531 | #77 of 96 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 26.6% | #1,369 of 1,600 | #57 of 95 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -26.6% | #152 of 1,045 | #7 of 61 |
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
459
-36 (-7%) vs 2020
+2% since 1990-91, when it was 450
Student : Teacher
12.1:1
was 11.8:1
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 | 459 | 37.8 | 12.1:1 | 27% (122) |
| 2023-24 | 458 | 38.3 | 11.9:1 | 27% (122) |
| 2022-23 | 464 | 39.5 | 11.8:1 | 19% (87) |
| 2020-21 | 495 | 42 | 11.8:1 | 20% (97) |
| 2017-18 | 625 | 42.5 | 14.7:1 | 15% (95) |
| 2015-16 | 597 | 46 | 13.0:1 | 14% (82) |
| 2010-11 | 659 | 44 | 15.0:1 | 11% (71) |
| 2000-01 | 690 | 42 | 16.4:1 | 10% (70) |
| 1990-91 | 450 | 26 | 17.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for South Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 27% (625 to 459); teachers down 11% (42.5 to 37.8).
About South Elementary School
South Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school for students in Trappe, Pennsylvania. Grades offered run from kindergarten through 5, with 459 students enrolled.
The 7 schools in Perkiomen Valley SD enroll 4,672 students altogether, South Elementary School among them.
South Elementary School is 73% White by enrollment. Smaller groups are 7% multiracial, 7% Asian, 7% Hispanic, and 6% Black. The county population is about 73% White, within a few points of the school. The school's diversity index is 45%, meaning two students picked at random have a 45% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Federal staffing data show 37.8 full-time-equivalent teachers at South Elementary School and a ratio of 12.1:1. This ratio sits 0.9 below the 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility covers 27% of students. That is 13 points below the 40% average for public schools in Montgomery County.
The allk12 Grade for South Elementary School is A-. Compared with Pennsylvania public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 84% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, South Elementary School is 9.0 points above the average proficiency rate on state tests predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 75.2% actual, 66.2% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Pennsylvania.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Montgomery County show that the median household income is $113,915, 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. South Elementary School is one of 160 public schools in the county.
Of nearby public schools, Evergreen Elementary School is the closest, at about 1.2 miles. South Elementary School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. The school's 75.2% average proficiency ranks 5th among 9 nearby schools.
NCES describes the area around South Elementary School as Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment is down 7% from 2020-21, when South Elementary School had 495 students, to 2024-25, when it had 459.
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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 Perkiomen Valley SD
- Perkiomen Valley High SchoolHigh · 1,616 students
- Perkiomen Valley MS-EastMiddle · 592 students
- Skippack Elementary SchoolElementary · 557 students
- Perkiomen Valley MS-WestMiddle · 509 students
- Schwenksville Elementary SchoolElementary · 474 students
- Evergreen Elementary SchoolElementary · 465 students
Other South Elementary schools
43 other US public schools in 18 states are named South Elementary. South Elementary School is the 12th largest of the 44.
- South Elementary SchoolMIDLAND, TX · 651 students
- South Elementary SchoolDanville, IN · 626 students
- South ElementaryPlymouth, MA · 614 students
- SOUTH ELEM.ELDON, MO · 552 students
- South Elementary SchoolMadison, OH · 506 students
Nearby schools
- Evergreen Elementary School1.2 mi · 465
- Perkiomen Valley MS-East1.4 mi · 592
- Perkiomen Valley High School1.4 mi · 1,616
- Upper Providence Elementary School2.5 mi · 435
- Arrowhead Elementary School2.7 mi · 426
- Skippack Elementary School2.7 mi · 557
Frequently asked questions
About South Elementary SchoolHow many students attend South Elementary School?
South Elementary School enrolls approximately 459 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does South Elementary School serve?
South Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at South Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at South Elementary School is approximately 12.1:1 (38 FTE teachers).
How diverse is South Elementary School?
South Elementary School reports a student body of 73% White, 7% Hispanic, 6% Black, 7% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees South Elementary School?
South Elementary School is overseen by Perkiomen Valley SD in Montgomery County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.