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What's something Stony Creek El Sch does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
643
Elementary
DISTRICT 623 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WISSAHICKON SD·NCES 420240003414
Stony Creek Elementary School
1721 Yost Rd, Blue Bell, PA 19422 · (215) 619-8108 · Montgomery County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL643 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 96% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-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
13.7:1
47 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.5:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
18%
114 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 | 93 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 105 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 106 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 105 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 122 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 112 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (93) is 17% smaller than its 5th grade class (112).
Student demographics
59%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
83.6%
PA avg 51.1% . +0.5pp since 2023
Math
84.5%
PA avg 43.0% . +0.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 84 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 85 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 83.6% | 84.5% |
| 2023-24 | 83.1% | 84.1% |
% 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
84.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
70.0%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+14.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 85% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 70% 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 Stony Creek Elementary School
Stony Creek Elementary School's state test result (84.8% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stony Creek Elementary School this school | 643 | 17.7% | 84.8% |
| Gwynedd Square Elementary School Lansdale | 610 | 19.2% | 74.5% |
| Shaull Elementary School Enola | 591 | 17.6% | 74.1% |
| Oaks Elementary School Oaks | 591 | 16.6% | 78.6% |
| South Fayette Elementary School McDonald | 717 | 14.2% | N/A |
| Concord Elementary School Glen Mills | 617 | 13.5% | N/A |
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 Stony Creek Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Montgomery County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 84.8% | #40 of 1,396 | #7 of 91 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 84.5% | #55 of 1,511 ▼ 21 | #8 of 92 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 83.6% | #33 of 1,511 ▲ 42 | #3 of 92 ▲ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 643 | #190 of 1,638 | #7 of 96 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.7:1 | #988 of 1,528 | #74 of 96 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 58.8% | #346 of 1,531 | #43 of 96 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 17.7% | #1,474 of 1,600 | #80 of 95 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +22.7% | #70 of 450 | #6 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
643
+94 (+17%) vs 2020
+36% since 1990-91, when it was 472
Student : Teacher
13.7:1
was 13.7:1
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 | 643 | 46.9 | 13.7:1 | 18% (114) |
| 2023-24 | 655 | 48 | 13.7:1 | 17% (114) |
| 2022-23 | 647 | 44.6 | 14.5:1 | 16% (101) |
| 2020-21 | 549 | 40 | 13.7:1 | 13% (72) |
| 2017-18 | 524 | 31.6 | 16.6:1 | 16% (86) |
| 2015-16 | 451 | 28 | 16.1:1 | 11% (49) |
| 2010-11 | 385 | 30 | 12.8:1 | 6% (25) |
| 2000-01 | 492 | 33 | 14.9:1 | 2% (9) |
| 1990-91 | 472 | 30 | 15.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Stony Creek Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 23% (524 to 643); teachers up 48% (31.6 to 46.9).
About Stony Creek Elementary School
Families in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, are served by Stony Creek Elementary School, a medium-sized elementary school. Students in kindergarten through 5 attend the school, which enrolls 643 students. The average among elementary schools in Pennsylvania is roughly 443 students; this school is 45% bigger than that.
Wissahickon SD runs Stony Creek Elementary School along with 5 other schools, enrolling 5,181 students in total.
White students make up a majority at Stony Creek Elementary School, at 59%. Other students are 22% Asian, 7% multiracial, 6% Black, and 6% Hispanic. That is lower than the 73% White share among all Montgomery County residents. The school's diversity index is 59%, meaning two students picked at random have a 59% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
The ratio of students to teachers is 13.7:1, with 46.9 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff. That is close to the 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania. Lunch subsidy eligibility at Stony Creek Elementary School is 18%. Compared with the 40% average for public schools in Montgomery County, the school's rate is lower.
The allk12 Grade for Stony Creek Elementary School is A+. Compared with Pennsylvania public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 96% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, Stony Creek Elementary School is 14.8 points above its prediction. Actual: 84.8%. Predicted: 70.0%.
Federal survey data for Montgomery County show that the median household income is $113,915, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 53% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 4%. There are 160 public schools in Montgomery County, enrolling about 115,302 students in all.
East Norriton Middle School is the closest public school, about 1.0 miles away in a straight line. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Stony Creek Elementary School. Among the 8 closest schools with test data, this one included, Stony Creek Elementary School ranks 1st on average proficiency.
Federal data place Stony Creek Elementary School in the Suburb: Large locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal data show a 17% enrollment rise, from 549 in 2020-21 to 643 in 2024-25.
The Stony Creek Elementary School community page is open for posts about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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
- Shady Grove Elementary SchoolElementary · 698 students
- Lower Gwynedd Elementary SchoolElementary · 630 students
- Blue Bell Elementary SchoolElementary · 522 students
Other Stony Creek Elementary schools
4 other US public schools in 4 states are named Stony Creek Elementary. Stony Creek Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 5.
- Stony Creek Elementary SchoolReading, PA · 345 students
- Stony Creek Elementary SchoolAlsip, IL · 652 students
- Stony Creek Elementary SchoolNoblesville, IN · 563 students
- Stony Creek Elementary SchoolLITTLETON, CO · 349 students
Nearby schools
- East Norriton Middle School1.0 mi · 836
- Blue Bell Elementary School2.1 mi · 522
- Cole Manor Elementary School2.1 mi · 347
- Paul V Fly Elementary School2.6 mi · 452
- Colonial Middle School2.7 mi · 1,268
- Central Montco Technical High School2.7 mi · 3
Frequently asked questions
About Stony Creek Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Stony Creek Elementary School?
Stony Creek Elementary School enrolls approximately 643 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Stony Creek Elementary School serve?
Stony Creek Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Stony Creek Elementary School?
Approximately 13.7:1 students per teacher at Stony Creek Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Stony Creek Elementary School?
Student demographics at Stony Creek Elementary School are roughly 59% White, 6% Hispanic, 6% Black, 22% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees Stony Creek Elementary School?
Stony Creek Elementary School is overseen by Wissahickon SD in Montgomery County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.