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Public school / Primary

Belmont Hills El Sch

Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania

NCES ID
421416000482
District
Lower Merion SD
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Belmont Hills El Sch is a public primary school in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, run by Lower Merion SD. It enrols 344 students — the 59307th largest of 2,956 public schools in Pennsylvania.

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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

344students

59307th nationally, tied with 151

Teachers

33.0FTE

35882nd nationally, tied with 1,861

Students per teacher

10.4students

10851st nationally, tied with 436

Free or reduced-price lunch

15.7%percent

79840th nationally, tied with 70

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.

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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.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Lower Merion Hs1,712 students
  2. 2Harriton Shs1,261 students
  3. 3Black Rock Ms1,032 students
  4. 4Welsh Valley Ms814 students
  5. 5Bala-Cynwyd Ms809 students
  6. 6Penn Wynne Sch615 students
  7. 7Gladwyne Sch540 students
  8. 8Penn Valley Sch514 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Pennsylvania median across 2,956 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment−32.5%
  • Teachers−5.7%
  • Students per teacher−23.0%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−69.3%
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Where this sits

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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
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.