Abington Is The Only Montco School District Not Raising Its Taxes

ABINGTON, PA — Every single Montgomery County school district is raising taxes for 2019-20, except for Abington.

A recent analysis by the Philadelphia Inquirer, which looked at districts in Bucks, Montgomery, Chester, and Delaware Counties to determine the largest tax increases, shows where residents in Montgomery County will contribute the most.

According to the analysis, Abington-area residents are the only ones in Montgomery County who won't be paying more this year than last year. Once again, the average resident's tax bill will be $,484.

Taxes have increased in Abington over the past five years (9 percent) and 10 years (17 percent), those are relatively modest rates compared to the rest of the area.

The highest increase for 2019-20 in Montgomery County is Colonial, covering the Plymouth-Whitemarsh area, which is seeing a 3.9 percent raise.

The following districts also have increases that range from 2.2 to 2.9 percent: Upper Moreland, Wissahickon, Upper Perkiomen, Norristown, Cheltenham, Spring-Ford, North Penn, Lower Merion, Hatboro-Horsham, Jenkintown, Upper Merion, and Upper Dublin.

Abington is the only Montgomery County school district that is not raising its taxes this year. Pottsgrove is only increasing by 0.6 percent, and Methacton is the next lowest, at 1.1 percent.

You may be wondering how your tax dollars are translating to school performance.

A new school district ranking was released last week by data compiler Niche, and Montgomery County dominated the top 50.

Lower Merion (3rd), Upper Dublin (14th), Colonial (16th), North Penn (17th), Wissahickon (19th), Spring-Ford (24th), Lower Moreland (28th), Perkiomen Valley (31st), Jenkintown (43rd), Souderton (44th), and Abington (49th) all made the top 50. (You can read more about the methodology here.)