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Woodland El Sch
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PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedWhat this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 60 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 77 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 11 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 74% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 68% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Woodland El Sch
Woodland El Sch is an elementary-level community of mid-sized scale in Norristown, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Methacton SD, enrolling 427 students in grades K through 4.
Within Methacton SD, which oversees 7 schools and 4,581 students, Woodland El Sch is one campus in the system.
In terms of who attends, Woodland El Sch records that the largest single group is White at 50%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school logs 28% Asian, 11% Hispanic, 6% Black, 5% multiracial. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 73%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Woodland El Sch has 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.6:1. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 22% of students at Woodland El Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Montgomery County (around 40%), the school's rate is south of typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Woodland El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 68.1%, the actual is 73.6%, a residual of +5.5 points.
In the broader community, census data for Montgomery County shows median household income runs about $113,915, 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Woodland El Sch is one of 160 public schools in Montgomery County (combined enrollment of about 115,302 students).
Nearest neighbor: Skyview Upper El Sch, around 1.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Woodland El Sch comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 49.6%.
The campus sits in a suburban setting.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Woodland El Sch has contracted 5%, going from 450 students in 2018 to 427 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 2% to 11% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 in 2025.
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