Melrose Park’s public schools beat 67% of Pennsylvania districts
The public schools Melrose Park’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 67% of Pennsylvania’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
Melrose Park’s schools, in brief
Strong statewide, typical for its income level
Statewide, Melrose Park’s schools beat 67% of districts. Compared with the 181 towns that have similar household incomes, that drops to 13%. Some of the strong showing reflects who lives here, so families moving from a similar town shouldn’t expect a big step up. How it compares ↓
Which school depends on your street
With four elementary schools, the school a child attends depends on your address. Elementary grades range from D− to A−, so it’s worth checking the specific school, not just the town. After that, everyone goes to Cedarbrook MS and Cheltenham HS. See the path ↓
This summary is written from the data on this page. Test scores are from 2020–21, a pandemic year, so treat small gaps with caution.
How Melrose Park compares
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Pennsylvania’s state tests against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown but don’t count. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids through every district that serves it, weighted by students tested. Tests count 60%, graduation 40%.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are compared with the rest of Pennsylvania only. A+ is the top 5%, A the next 10%, A− the next 10%, the B range the next 30%, the C range the next 30%, D the rest.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income, so we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
Where will my kid go?
Pick a grade. These are the public schools that serve Melrose Park.
The district
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
How students score
Every school in Melrose Park
0 schools. Grades are based on state tests and graduation. Any other ratings are made by neighbors.
Parents talk
What Melrose Park families are saying about school.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
Colleges near Melrose Park
There’s no college in Melrose Park, but 40 are within 30 miles. The closest is Gratz College in Cheltenham, 0.4 miles away.
Straight-line distance from the center of Melrose Park. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus · College Scorecard · IPEDS. 30 more within 30 miles.
School data: U.S. Department of Education (NCES, EDFacts, F-33 school finance). The School Grade is our own summary of state test results and graduation rates, graded within Pennsylvania. Stars are from neighbors.