York Avenue El Sch

York Avenue El Sch, a cozy K-5 school in Lansdale, Pennsylvania, run under North Penn SD, enrolls 291 students, covering grades K through 6. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so York Avenue El Sch sits 34% smaller than that benchmark.

York Avenue El Sch is one of 17 schools operated by North Penn SD, a district that teaches 12,817 students overall.

Looking at the student body, York Avenue El Sch records that the largest single group is White, at 62% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 13% Hispanic, 10% Asian, 8% Black, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Montgomery County as a whole is about 73% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 34% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, York Avenue El Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 62.9%; this one delivers 64.9%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Montgomery County indicate median household income runs about $113,915, 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Montgomery County runs 160 public schools (combined enrollment of about 115,302 students), of which York Avenue El Sch is one.

Inglewood El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around York Avenue El Sch. On composite proficiency, York Avenue El Sch comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 61.3%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 6%: 274 students in 2018 compared to 291 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 76% to 62%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 today.

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