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Spring-Ford Intrmd Sch 5th/6th
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Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedWhat this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 69 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 64 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 68% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Spring-Ford Intrmd Sch 5th/6th
Spring-Ford Intrmd Sch 5th/6th is a sizable middle-grades school in Royersford, Pennsylvania, run under Spring-Ford Area SD. The school serves 1,307 students in grades 5 through 6. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 594 students each, so Spring-Ford Intrmd Sch 5th/6th sits 120% larger than that benchmark.
Spring-Ford Area SD runs 11 schools in total, collectively educating 8,046 students. Spring-Ford Intrmd Sch 5th/6th is one of those campuses.
Looking at the student body, Spring-Ford Intrmd Sch 5th/6th lists that 62% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school shows 17% Asian, 8% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 5% Black. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 73%.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 93 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. Roughly 21% of students at Spring-Ford Intrmd Sch 5th/6th qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Montgomery County runs at roughly 40%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Spring-Ford Intrmd Sch 5th/6th sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 68.8%; this one delivers 67.6%.
In the broader community, census data for Montgomery County shows the typical household earns roughly $113,915 per year, 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Montgomery County's 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 115,302 students), Spring-Ford Intrmd Sch 5th/6th is one campus in the mix.
Spring-Ford MS 7th Grade Ctr is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Spring-Ford Intrmd Sch 5th/6th at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 71.7%.
The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Spring-Ford Intrmd Sch 5th/6th has remained close to its prior level, going from 1,309 students in 2018 to 1,307 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 79% to 62% across the same window.
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