Public school / Primary
Gwynedd Square El Sch
Lansdale, Pennsylvania
- NCES ID
- 421728010006
- District
- North Penn SD
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Gwynedd Square El Sch is a public primary school in Lansdale, Pennsylvania, run by North Penn SD. It enrols 616 students — the 25374th 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
616
Teachers
46.0
Students per teacher
13.4
Free or reduced-price lunch
18.5%
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 North Penn 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.
- 1North Penn Shs3,184 students
- 2Penndale Ms1,208 students
- 3Pennfield Ms900 students
- 4Pennbrook Ms807 students
- 5Montgomery El Sch643 students
- 6Gwynedd Square El Sch616 students
- 7Gwyn-Nor El Sch604 students
- 8Knapp El Sch602 students
- Enrollment+20.8%
- Teachers+31.4%
- Students per teacher−0.7%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−63.9%
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