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How has Afton El Sch changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
483
Elementary
DISTRICT 429 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PENNSBURY SD·NCES 421884000303
Afton Elementary School
1673 Quarry Rd, Yardley, PA 19067 · (215) 321-8540 · Bucks County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL483 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 92% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Pennsylvania public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
11.1:1
44 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.4:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
19%
91 students
DISTRICT 34% · STATE 75%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 67 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 77 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 90 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 76 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 96 | 20% |
| Grade 5 | 77 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (67) is 13% smaller than its 5th grade class (77).
Student demographics
48%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 46% · STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
78.7%
PA avg 51.1% . -5.3pp since 2023
Math
76.7%
PA avg 43.0% . -4.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 79 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 77 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 5 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 78.7% | 76.7% |
| 2023-24 | 84.0% | 81.3% |
% Proficient or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: PSSA + Keystone. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
81.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.5%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+11.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 81% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 70% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Pennsylvania's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Afton Elementary School
Afton Elementary School's state test result (81.2% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Afton Elementary School this school | 483 | 18.8% | 81.2% |
| Warwick Elementary School Jamison | 502 | 15.7% | 70.6% |
| Worrall Elementary School Broomall | 449 | 22.7% | 74.1% |
| Beaver Creek Elementary School Downingtown | 531 | 16.9% | 75.7% |
| Wayne Elementary School Wayne | 525 | 16.6% | 80.4% |
| Merion Elementary School Merion Station | 438 | 14.8% | 90.0% |
Matched among Pennsylvania elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Afton Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Bucks County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 81.2% | #88 of 1,396 | #4 of 71 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 76.7% | #161 of 1,511 ▼ 97 | #9 of 72 ▼ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 78.7% | #85 of 1,511 ▼ 24 | #9 of 72 ▼ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 483 | #578 of 1,638 | #33 of 74 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.1:1 | #216 of 1,528 | #6 of 71 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 48.2% | #583 of 1,531 | #26 of 71 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 18.8% | #1,454 of 1,600 | #43 of 73 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.8% | #330 of 1,045 | #7 of 50 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
483
-16 (-3%) vs 2020
-19% since 2000-01, when it was 593
Student : Teacher
11.1:1
was 12.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 483 | 43.6 | 11.1:1 | 19% (91) |
| 2023-24 | 502 | 46.7 | 10.8:1 | 18% (91) |
| 2022-23 | 510 | 43.4 | 11.8:1 | 16% (83) |
| 2020-21 | 499 | 40 | 12.5:1 | 9% (47) |
| 2017-18 | 595 | 42.3 | 14.1:1 | 9% (56) |
| 2015-16 | 553 | 36 | 15.4:1 | 9% (51) |
| 2010-11 | 573 | 33 | 17.4:1 | 5% (30) |
| 2000-01 | 593 | 33 | 18.0:1 | 7% (39) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Afton Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 19% (595 to 483); teachers up 3% (42.3 to 43.6).
About Afton Elementary School
Afton Elementary School is an elementary school in Yardley, Pennsylvania, reachable at (215) 321-8540. The school teaches kindergarten through 5 and enrolls 483 students.
Pennsbury SD, which runs Afton Elementary School, has 14 schools and 9,435 students.
The share of White students at Afton Elementary School is 70%, a majority. The remaining students are 12% Asian, 7% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, and 3% Black. Census figures show Bucks County is about 81% White. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 48, compared with 70 nationally.
Afton Elementary School has a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.1:1, with 43.6 full-time-equivalent teachers. Compared with the 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania, this school's ratio is lower. The school has 19% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Across public schools in Bucks County, the average is 40%.
On the allk12 Grade, Afton Elementary School lands at A, ahead of 92% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools.
Based on student poverty, the model expects 69.5% at Afton Elementary School; the school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 81.2%.
American Community Survey estimates for Bucks County show that median household income comes to about $114,764, roughly 45% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Bucks County counts 123 public schools with about 81,956 students.
Afton Elementary School's nearest public school is Quarry Hill Elementary School (about 0.2 miles). The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 64.7%; Afton Elementary School's is 81.2%, ranking 3rd of 9.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 499 students in 2020-21, enrollment fell to 483 by 2024-25. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio dropped from 12.5:1 to 11.1:1.
People who know Afton Elementary School can post here about homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
Bucks County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
647,461
Census ACS
Median income
$114,764
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
45%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
123
81,956 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Pennsbury SD
- Pennsbury High SchoolHigh · 2,847 students
- William Penn Middle SchoolMiddle · 904 students
- Pennwood Middle SchoolMiddle · 740 students
- Charles H Boehm Middle SchoolMiddle · 651 students
- Eleanor Roosevelt Elementary SchoolElementary · 583 students
- Edgewood Elementary SchoolElementary · 557 students
Other schools in Yardley
- William Penn Middle SchoolMiddle · 904 students
- Pennwood Middle SchoolMiddle · 740 students
- Charles H Boehm Middle SchoolMiddle · 651 students
- Edgewood Elementary SchoolElementary · 557 students
- Quarry Hill Elementary SchoolElementary · 464 students
- Makefield Elementary SchoolElementary · 397 students
Other Afton Elementary schools
3 other US public schools in 4 states are named Afton Elementary. Afton Elementary School is the largest of the 4.
- Afton ElementaryAfton, WY · 419 students
- Afton Elementary SchoolAfton, OK · 268 students
- AFTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLAFTON, NY · 210 students
Nearby schools
- Quarry Hill Elementary School0.2 mi · 464
- Edgewood Elementary School2.5 mi · 557
- Goodnoe Elementary School2.7 mi · 668
- Buck Elementary School2.9 mi · 571
- Maple Point Middle School2.9 mi · 1,296
- Francis Lore Elementary School3.1 mi · 505
Frequently asked questions
About Afton Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Afton Elementary School?
Afton Elementary School enrolls approximately 483 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Afton Elementary School serve?
Afton Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many teachers does Afton Elementary School have?
Afton Elementary School employs 44 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.1:1.
What is the student diversity at Afton Elementary School?
Student demographics at Afton Elementary School are roughly 70% White, 7% Hispanic, 3% Black, 12% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees Afton Elementary School?
Afton Elementary School is overseen by Pennsbury SD in Bucks County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.