Willow Hill Sch

Willow Hill Sch operates as an intimate K-5 school in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, operated by Abington SD. Current enrollment sits at 362 students spanning grades K through 5.

Abington SD runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 8,400 students. Willow Hill Sch is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Willow Hill Sch logs that the most-represented group is White (38%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 28% Black, 13% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 8% Asian. By comparison, Montgomery County as a whole is about 73% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Willow Hill Sch lists 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. Around 46% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Willow Hill Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.0%, the actual is 68.6%, a residual of +10.6 points.

Around the school, census data for Montgomery County shows the typical household earns roughly $113,915 per year, about 53% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Montgomery County runs 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 115,302 students), of which Willow Hill Sch is one.

The closest other public school is Thomas Fitzwater El Sch, roughly 0.8 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Willow Hill Sch comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 65.2%.

Willow Hill Sch operates from an outer-ring location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 11%: 409 students in 2018 compared to 362 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share shrank from 42% to 28%.

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