Upper Perkiomen 4th and 5th Grade Center

Upper Perkiomen 4th and 5th Grade Center is a K-5 school of middle-of-the-pack scale in East Greenville, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Upper Perkiomen SD, enrolling 466 students in grades 4 through 5.

Upper Perkiomen SD runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 3,072 students. Upper Perkiomen 4th and 5th Grade Center is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Upper Perkiomen 4th and 5th Grade Center lists that nearly all students (87%) are White. Beyond that, the school records 6% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 73% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Upper Perkiomen 4th and 5th Grade Center higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 37% of students at Upper Perkiomen 4th and 5th Grade Center qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Upper Perkiomen 4th and 5th Grade Center performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.9%, the actual is 62.7%, a residual of +0.8 points.

In the area at large, Montgomery County reports that median household income runs about $113,915, roughly 53% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Montgomery County runs 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 115,302 students), of which Upper Perkiomen 4th and 5th Grade Center is one.

The closest other public school is Upper Perkiomen MS, roughly 1.7 miles away. Within five miles, there are 6 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Upper Perkiomen 4th and 5th Grade Center comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 58.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

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