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Spring-Ford SHS 9-12 Ctr
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Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedWhat this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 78 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 70 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 75% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 68% 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 SHS 9-12 Ctr
Spring-Ford SHS 9-12 Ctr is one of the sprawling 9-12 campuss in Royersford, Pennsylvania, overseen by Spring-Ford Area SD, with 2,629 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 738 students each, so Spring-Ford SHS 9-12 Ctr sits 256% larger than that benchmark.
Spring-Ford SHS 9-12 Ctr is one of 11 schools operated by Spring-Ford Area SD, a district that works with 8,046 students overall.
In terms of who attends, Spring-Ford SHS 9-12 Ctr logs that 68% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school logs 13% Asian, 8% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 5% Black.
In terms of school funding signals, Spring-Ford SHS 9-12 Ctr shows 185 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.2:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 22% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Montgomery County's rate of about 40%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Spring-Ford SHS 9-12 Ctr performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 68.2%, the actual is 74.8%, a residual of +6.6 points.
In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Montgomery County put the typical household earns roughly $113,915 per year, about 53% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 Spring-Ford SHS 9-12 Ctr is one.
Spring-Ford MS 8th Grade Ctr is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Spring-Ford SHS 9-12 Ctr. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Spring-Ford SHS 9-12 Ctr at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 71.2%.
The school occupies an outer-ring site.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Spring-Ford SHS 9-12 Ctr has expanded 3%, going from 2,553 students in 2018 to 2,629 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 81% to 68%.
Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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