Demographics
School District of Cheltenham Township Number of StudentsAs with all school districts, the total number of students in the School District of Cheltenham Township changes from year to year. The largest number of students in the District may have been 6,866 students during 1970. During the 2005-2006 school year, there were 4,663 students in the District. As the file below notes, the total number of students in the District is projected to drop by 19 percent from 2001/2002 to 2015/2016. It is unclear what impact this will have on the District or what planning is being done to adjust services for students based on this projected decrease, and other demographic changes.
Cheltenham Township School District Enrollment Projections
2001-2002 to 2015-2016
Montgomery County, PA Public School Special Education Enrollment
For the period between 2002-2003 and 2005-2006, special education students have been increasing as a percentage of the total student population in Montgomery County, PA. For the Cheltenham Township School District, the percentage of students who are special education students has increased at one of the lowest rates in Montgomery County, from 12.5 percent in 2002-2003 to 12.9 percent in 2005-2006. For 2005-2006, the percentage of special education students in the Cheltenham Township School District was the seventh lowest in Montgomery County, this is a decrease from 2005-2006 when the District had the tenth lowest percentage of special education from the 21 school districts in Montgomery County. The District's percentage of special education students is below the average rate in Montgomery County,
Montgomery County, PA Public School Special Education
Enrollment 2002-2003 to 2005-2006
Abington School District, Cheltenham School District, Jenkintown School District, Wissahickon School District (Pennsylvania) Census Data 2000
Data by school district for Cheltenham and selected nearby districts from 2000.
2000 Chetenham Area Census Data
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