Whitehall El Sch

Whitehall El Sch is an elementary campus of medium-sized scale in Norristown, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Norristown Area SD, hosting 503 students in grades K through 4.

Across the 12 schools in Norristown Area SD (7,617 students total), Whitehall El Sch accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Whitehall El Sch shows that 60% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 21% Black, 11% multiracial, 7% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 7%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.5:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Montgomery County runs at roughly 40%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Whitehall El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.3%, the actual is 32.5%, a residual of -2.8 points.

In the area at large, Montgomery County reports that the typical household earns roughly $113,915 per year, about 53% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Montgomery County's 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 115,302 students), Whitehall El Sch is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Norristown Area HS, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Whitehall El Sch ranks 5th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 29.8%.

Whitehall El Sch operates from a bedroom-community location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Whitehall El Sch has edged down 11%, going from 568 students in 2018 to 503 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 30% to 21% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Whitehall El Sch typically covers pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.