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Enrollment
566
Elementary
DISTRICT 527 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NORTH PENN SD·NCES 421728000134
Walton Farm Elementary School
1610 Allentown Rd, Lansdale, PA 19446 · (215) 855-8800 · Montgomery County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL566 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 78% 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.
- BBeats 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
14.7:1
38 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
34%
192 students
DISTRICT 36% · 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 | 60 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 66 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 90 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 79 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 71 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 93 | 16% |
| Grade 6 | 107 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (60) is 44% smaller than its 6th grade class (107).
Student demographics
64%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 66% · 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
70.0%
PA avg 51.1% . +0.2pp since 2023
Math
70.4%
PA avg 43.0% . +6.7pp 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 70 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 are up about 7 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 70.0% | 70.4% |
| 2023-24 | 69.8% | 63.7% |
% 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
70.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
63.1%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 71% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 63% 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 Walton Farm Elementary School
Walton Farm Elementary School's state test result (70.6% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Walton Farm Elementary School this school | 566 | 33.9% | 70.6% |
| East Ward Elementary School Downingtown | 549 | 30.4% | 72.6% |
| Kulp Elementary School Hatfield | 583 | 39.6% | 56.4% |
| Hampden Elementary School Mechanicsburg | 538 | 29.6% | 71.2% |
| Fogelsville School Breinigsville | 480 | 32.9% | 78.8% |
| Bridle Path Elementary School Lansdale | 508 | 22.8% | 71.3% |
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 Walton Farm Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Montgomery County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 70.6% | #280 of 1,396 | #39 of 91 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 70.4% | #271 of 1,511 ▲ 118 | #38 of 92 ▲ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 70.0% | #211 of 1,511 ▲ 136 | #27 of 92 ▲ 21 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 566 | #339 of 1,638 | #23 of 96 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.7:1 | #1,208 of 1,528 | #86 of 96 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 63.7% | #239 of 1,531 | #32 of 96 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 33.9% | #1,273 of 1,600 | #44 of 95 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -0.2% | #1,040 of 1,045 | #61 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
566
+20 (+4%) vs 2020
-10% since 2000-01, when it was 626
Student : Teacher
14.7:1
was 13.3:1
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 | 566 | 38.5 | 14.7:1 | 34% (192) |
| 2023-24 | 583 | 39.2 | 14.9:1 | 33% (192) |
| 2022-23 | 573 | 40.4 | 14.2:1 | 34% (197) |
| 2020-21 | 546 | 41 | 13.3:1 | 28% (155) |
| 2017-18 | 567 | 37.3 | 15.2:1 | 28% (156) |
| 2015-16 | 614 | 37 | 16.6:1 | 22% (136) |
| 2010-11 | 559 | 36 | 15.5:1 | 15% (86) |
| 2000-01 | 626 | 36 | 17.4:1 | 11% (69) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Walton Farm Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students unchanged (567 to 566); teachers up 3% (37.3 to 38.5).
About Walton Farm Elementary School
Walton Farm Elementary School operates as a mid-sized elementary school in Lansdale, Pennsylvania. It has an enrollment of 566 students in kindergarten through 6. Elementary schools in Pennsylvania average about 443 students, which makes this school 28% above average.
District-wide, North Penn SD has 17 schools and 12,817 students.
The share of White students at Walton Farm Elementary School is 55%, a majority. Smaller groups are 21% Asian, 8% Black, 8% Hispanic, and 8% multiracial. For comparison, the population of Montgomery County is roughly 73% White. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 64%.
With 38.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 14.7:1. Elementary schools in Pennsylvania have an average ratio of 13.1:1. Student poverty is often measured by lunch eligibility; at Walton Farm Elementary School, 34% qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
On the allk12 Grade, Walton Farm Elementary School lands at A-, ahead of 78% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate across its state test results with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For Walton Farm Elementary School, the prediction is 63.1% and the result is 70.6%.
The county, Montgomery County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $113,915 a year, 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Walton Farm Elementary School, Montgomery County has 160 public schools.
Walton Farm Elementary School is about 1.0 miles from Inglewood Elementary School, its nearest public school. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Walton Farm Elementary School ranks 2nd of 8 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 70.6% against a local average of 60.0%.
Its location is classified as Suburb: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 4% gain, from 546 to 566. The student-to-teacher ratio increased from 13.3:1 in 2020-21 to 14.7:1 in 2024-25.
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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 North Penn SD
- North Penn SHSHigh · 3,165 students
- Penndale Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,171 students
- Pennfield Middle SchoolMiddle · 865 students
- Pennbrook Middle SchoolMiddle · 767 students
- Gwyn-Nor Elementary SchoolElementary · 663 students
- Knapp Elementary SchoolElementary · 633 students
Other schools in Lansdale
- North Penn SHSHigh · 3,165 students
- Penndale Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,171 students
- Knapp Elementary SchoolElementary · 633 students
- Gwynedd Square Elementary SchoolElementary · 610 students
- Oak Park Elementary SchoolElementary · 526 students
- Bridle Path Elementary SchoolElementary · 508 students
Nearby schools
- Inglewood Elementary School1.0 mi · 408
- North Montco Technical Career Center1.3 mi · 32
- Pennfield Middle School1.4 mi · 865
- North Penn SHS1.4 mi · 3,165
- Oak Park Elementary School1.5 mi · 526
- York Avenue Elementary School1.7 mi · 291
Frequently asked questions
About Walton Farm Elementary SchoolHow large is Walton Farm Elementary School?
Walton Farm Elementary School enrolls approximately 566 students in grades KG-06.
What grades does Walton Farm Elementary School serve?
Walton Farm Elementary School serves grades KG-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Walton Farm Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Walton Farm Elementary School is approximately 14.7:1 (38 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Walton Farm Elementary School?
Student demographics at Walton Farm Elementary School are roughly 55% White, 8% Hispanic, 8% Black, 21% Asian, 8% Two or more.
What district is Walton Farm Elementary School in?
Walton Farm Elementary School is part of North Penn SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.