Public school / Middle
Bala-Cynwyd Ms
Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania
- NCES ID
- 421416003293
- District
- Lower Merion SD
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Bala-Cynwyd Ms is a public middle school in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, run by Lower Merion SD. It enrols 809 students — the 13872nd largest of 2,956 public schools in Pennsylvania.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
809
Teachers
79.0
Students per teacher
10.2
Free or reduced-price lunch
12.0%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Lower Merion SD
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Lower Merion Hs1,712 students
- 2Harriton Shs1,261 students
- 3Black Rock Ms1,032 students
- 4Welsh Valley Ms814 students
- 5Bala-Cynwyd Ms809 students
- 6Penn Wynne Sch615 students
- 7Gladwyne Sch540 students
- 8Penn Valley Sch514 students
- Enrollment+58.6%
- Teachers+125.7%
- Students per teacher−24.4%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−76.6%
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory