NCES CCD 2024-25 13 schools PA

Best-Resourced Schools in Norristown, PA

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13 public K-12 schools in Norristown from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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13
Schools
8,044
Students
37/100
Avg Resource Index
14.7:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Norristown has more public-school enrollment than 74% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Norristown sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

11 of Norristown's 13 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 0 middle and 2 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

Economic need crosses separate district systems

90.7% of enrollment in reporting Norristown schools is eligible for free lunch, while the city list spans 2 districts. That pairing makes a citywide average especially easy to misread: the need measure follows students, but staffing decisions, calendars, program rules, and federal allocations are administered through separate district structures. The 27-point gap between Woodland El Sch and Marshall Street El Sch shows how much reported resource capacity can vary inside the same municipal label. Compare schools within the same district first, then use the city view to see how those local systems differ.

City enrollment
Top 26%
School count
Top 28%
Resource Index average
33rd percentile
Teacher staffing
58th percentile

Norristown Area Hs accounts for 28.0% of all Norristown public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Norristown-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Norristown school enrollment varies 13× across entities

Norristown school enrollment ranges from 180 students (lowest) to 2,256 students (highest), a spread of 2,076 students. That spread reflects typical urban portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Norristown reports 90.7% free-lunch eligibility

The reported share is above 87.5%, so economic need is widespread across the measured student population. Title I operates under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015), but its statutory allocation uses additional LEA-level counts and rules not represented by this average. This percentage is an economic-need context measure; it does not establish a Title I award, show dollars received, or describe how funds are distributed among campuses.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Norristown student-teacher ratio is 14.7:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Variation between sub-units within Norristown is typically wider than the Norristown-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Woodland El Sch 50
2. Cole Manor El Sch 47
3. Eisenhower Ms 42
4. Paul V Fly El Sch 42
5. Stewart Ms 39
6. Roosevelt Campus of the Norristown Area 39
7. Norristown Area Hs 35
8. Hancock El Sch 34
9. Ray S. Musselman Learning Center 34
10. Gotwals El Sch 33
11. East Norriton Ms 32
12. Whitehall El Sch 31
13. Marshall Street El Sch 23

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Norristown

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Paul V Fly El Sch 73.7/100
  2. 2 East Norriton Ms 67.9/100
  3. 3 Cole Manor El Sch 66.5/100
  4. 4 Woodland El Sch 65.3/100
  5. 5 Hancock El Sch 64.7/100

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Which Norristown school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Woodland El Sch has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Norristown schools in this federal-data comparison at 50/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Norristown, PA? ▼

Norristown has 13 public schools with a total enrollment of 8,044 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 14.7:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.