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Woodland El Sch
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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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