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Enrollment
503
Elementary
DISTRICT 410 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NORRISTOWN AREA SD·NCES 421698000047
Whitehall Elementary School
399 N Whitehall Rd, Norristown, PA 19403 · (610) 630-6000 · Montgomery County
GRADES KG–04ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL503 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 24% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
12.5:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.0:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
496 students
DISTRICT 99% · 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 | 102 | 20% |
| Grade 1 | 105 | 21% |
| Grade 2 | 88 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 110 | 22% |
| Grade 4 | 98 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (102) is about the same size as its 4th grade class (98).
Student demographics
58%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 63% · 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
18.1%
PA avg 51.1% . -9.7pp since 2023
Math
29.7%
PA avg 43.0% . +2.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 18 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 30 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 10 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 18.1% | 29.7% |
| 2023-24 | 27.8% | 27.4% |
% 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
32.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
35.3%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 35% 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 Whitehall Elementary School
Whitehall Elementary School's state test result (32.5% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Whitehall Elementary School this school | 503 | 98.6% | 32.5% |
| Webster School Philadelphia | 510 | 98.8% | 22.8% |
| Paxinosa Elementary School Easton | 572 | 99.7% | 25.0% |
| Carter and MacRae Elementary School Lancaster | 444 | 92.6% | 26.8% |
| Lincoln CS York | 653 | 95.4% | 13.5% |
| Marshall Street Elementary School Norristown | 585 | 96.8% | 35.5% |
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 Whitehall Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Montgomery County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 32.5% | #1,145 of 1,396 | #89 of 91 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 29.7% | #1,160 of 1,511 ▲ 8 | #90 of 92 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 18.1% | #1,382 of 1,511 ▼ 72 | #91 of 92 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 503 | #525 of 1,638 | #37 of 96 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.5:1 | #592 of 1,528 | #49 of 96 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 58.0% | #368 of 1,531 | #45 of 96 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 98.6% | #420 of 1,600 | #10 of 95 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.4% | #588 of 1,045 | #40 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
503
+4 (+1%) vs 2020
-11% since 2000-01, when it was 565
Student : Teacher
12.5:1
was 14.3:1
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 | 503 | 40.3 | 12.5:1 | 99% (496) |
| 2023-24 | 496 | 38 | 13.1:1 | 100% (496) |
| 2022-23 | 486 | 36.7 | 13.3:1 | 100% (486) |
| 2020-21 | 499 | 35 | 14.3:1 | 99% (496) |
| 2017-18 | 568 | 41.6 | 13.7:1 | 100% (568) |
| 2015-16 | 540 | 38 | 14.2:1 | 89% (481) |
| 2010-11 | 467 | 34 | 13.7:1 | 82% (385) |
| 2000-01 | 565 | 40 | 14.1:1 | 65% (367) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Whitehall Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 11% (568 to 503); teachers down 3% (41.6 to 40.3).
About Whitehall Elementary School
Whitehall Elementary School is an elementary school in Norristown, Pennsylvania, according to federal school records. The school offers kindergarten through 4 and enrolls 503 students.
Norristown Area SD counts 12 schools and 7,617 students, including Whitehall Elementary School.
More than half of the students at Whitehall Elementary School are Hispanic (60%). Other reported shares: 21% Black, 11% multiracial, and 7% White. That compares with about 7% Hispanic among all Montgomery County residents. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 58%.
A staff of 40.3 full-time-equivalent teachers puts the student-to-teacher ratio at 12.5:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in Pennsylvania is similar, at 13.1:1. By family income, 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Montgomery County is 40%.
Whitehall Elementary School holds a C- allk12 Grade, placing it above 24% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools.
Test results at Whitehall Elementary School are 2.8 points below what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (32.5% actual, 35.3% predicted).
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Montgomery County show that median household income comes to about $113,915, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 53% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 4%. The county's public schools total 160, with about 115,302 students.
Norristown Area High School is the nearest public school to Whitehall Elementary School, about 0.2 miles away. Whitehall Elementary School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles. The nearest schools with test data average 29.8%, lower than Whitehall Elementary School's 32.5%.
Under the NCES locale system, Whitehall Elementary School is Suburb: Large.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, enrollment moved from 499 to 503, a small change. Its ratio of students to teachers was 14.3:1 in 2020-21, and 12.5:1 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 Norristown Area SD
- Norristown Area High SchoolHigh · 2,256 students
- East Norriton Middle SchoolMiddle · 836 students
- Eisenhower Middle SchoolMiddle · 781 students
- Blockson Middle SchoolMiddle · 695 students
- Marshall Street Elementary SchoolElementary · 585 students
- Paul V Fly Elementary SchoolElementary · 452 students
Other schools in Norristown
- Norristown Area High SchoolHigh · 2,256 students
- East Norriton Middle SchoolMiddle · 836 students
- Eisenhower Middle SchoolMiddle · 781 students
- Blockson Middle SchoolMiddle · 695 students
- Marshall Street Elementary SchoolElementary · 585 students
- Paul V Fly Elementary SchoolElementary · 452 students
Other Whitehall Elementary schools
6 other US public schools in 6 states are named Whitehall Elementary. Whitehall Elementary School is the 3rd largest of the 7.
- Whitehall Elementary SchoolPittsburgh, PA · 669 students
- Whitehall ElementaryAnderson, SC · 504 students
- Whitehall ElementaryBowie, MD · 485 students
- Whitehall Elementary SchoolWILLIAMSTOWN, NJ · 390 students
- WHITEHALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLWHITEHALL, NY · 332 students
Nearby schools
- Norristown Area High School0.2 mi · 2,256
- Paul V Fly Elementary School0.9 mi · 452
- Marshall Street Elementary School1.1 mi · 585
- Blockson Middle School1.2 mi · 695
- Eisenhower Middle School1.6 mi · 781
- Roosevelt Campus of the Norristown Area High School1.7 mi · 180
Frequently asked questions
About Whitehall Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Whitehall Elementary School?
Whitehall Elementary School enrolls approximately 503 students in grades KG-04.
Is Whitehall Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Whitehall Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-04.
How many teachers does Whitehall Elementary School have?
Whitehall Elementary School employs 40 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.5:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Whitehall Elementary School?
At Whitehall Elementary School, the student body is approximately 7% White, 60% Hispanic, 21% Black, 1% Asian, 11% Two or more.
Is Whitehall Elementary School public or private?
Whitehall Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Norristown Area SD.
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