Enrollment
281
Elementary
DISTRICT 452 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PHOENIXVILLE AREA SD·NCES 421905001430
Barkley Elementary School
320 Second Ave, Phoenixville, PA 19460 · (484) 927-5300 · Chester County
GRADES 02–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL281 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 52% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-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
9.8:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.5:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
59%
165 students
DISTRICT 36% · STATE 75%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 2 | 66 | 23% |
| Grade 3 | 74 | 26% |
| Grade 4 | 76 | 27% |
| Grade 5 | 65 | 23% |
Student demographics
59%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 53% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within Phoenixville Area SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
48.1%
PA avg 51.1% . -12.3pp since 2023
Math
54.9%
PA avg 43.0% . +0.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 55 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 12 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 48.1% | 54.9% |
| 2023-24 | 60.4% | 54.1% |
% 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
57.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
52.4%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 57% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 52% 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 Barkley Elementary School
Barkley Elementary School's state test result (57.0% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barkley Elementary School this school | 281 | 58.7% | 57.0% |
| Vida CS Gettysburg | 251 | 54.6% | 42.8% |
| Calypso Elementary School Bethlehem | 222 | 55.0% | 59.2% |
| James Buchanan Elementary School Bethlehem | 253 | 67.2% | 38.9% |
| Union Canal Elementary School Lebanon | 386 | 66.3% | 41.4% |
| Wilson Borough Elementary School Easton | 285 | 64.6% | 61.4% |
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 Barkley Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Chester County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 57.0% | #679 of 1,396 | #47 of 54 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 54.9% | #672 of 1,511 ▼ 31 | #47 of 56 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 48.1% | #791 of 1,511 ▼ 179 | #49 of 56 ▼ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 281 | #1,317 of 1,638 | #59 of 62 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.8:1 | #65 of 1,528 | #1 of 60 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 59.0% | #340 of 1,531 | #15 of 60 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 58.7% | #835 of 1,600 | #11 of 61 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.4% | #918 of 1,045 | #33 of 40 |
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
281
-7 (-2%) vs 2020
-22% since 1990-91, when it was 359
Student : Teacher
9.8:1
was 11.5:1
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 | 281 | 28.8 | 9.8:1 | 59% (165) |
| 2023-24 | 289 | 27.6 | 10.5:1 | 57% (165) |
| 2022-23 | 291 | 30.1 | 9.7:1 | 57% (165) |
| 2020-21 | 288 | 25 | 11.5:1 | 56% (161) |
| 2017-18 | 291 | 30.5 | 9.5:1 | 51% (149) |
| 2015-16 | 436 | 40 | 10.9:1 | 55% (241) |
| 2010-11 | 356 | 31 | 11.5:1 | 47% (166) |
| 2000-01 | 320 | 26 | 12.3:1 | 38% (121) |
| 1990-91 | 359 | 23 | 15.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Barkley Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 3% (291 to 281); teachers down 6% (30.5 to 28.8).
About Barkley Elementary School
Barkley Elementary School is one of the public schools in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. It is a small elementary school. It covers grades 2 through 5, with a total enrollment of 281 students. Enrollment is 37% lower than the average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania, which is about 443.
Phoenixville Area SD runs 6 schools with a combined 3,966 students. Barkley Elementary School is one of them.
Barkley Elementary School's enrollment has no majority group, and Hispanic students are the largest at 47%. The remaining students are 43% White, 5% multiracial, and 3% Black. Among people living in Chester County, the Hispanic share is about 8%. By the diversity index, Barkley Elementary School comes in at 59%.
A ratio of 9.8:1 comes from the school's 28.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. The 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania is higher than this school's figure. The lunch program counts 59% of students at Barkley Elementary School as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. The gap from the 38% average for public schools in Chester County is 21 points.
Barkley Elementary School is graded B- by allk12, scoring above 52% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
The model predicts 52.4% for a school in Pennsylvania with Barkley Elementary School's free or reduced-price lunch share. Barkley Elementary School posts 57.0%.
Census estimates describe Chester County this way: median household income is about $127,208, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 4% of people live in poverty. The public schools of Chester County number 111 and enroll about 83,468.
Phoenixville Area High School is the closest public school, about 0.5 miles away in a straight line. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Of the 8 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Barkley Elementary School is 5th on average proficiency.
The NCES locale for Barkley Elementary School is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment was essentially flat over 4 years: 288 in 2020-21, 281 in 2024-25. Federal data show the ratio falling from 11.5:1 to 9.8:1.
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Chester County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
547,840
Census ACS
Median income
$127,208
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
57%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
111
83,468 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Phoenixville Area SD
- Phoenixville Area High SchoolHigh · 1,194 students
- Phoenixville Area Middle SchoolMiddle · 963 students
- Phoenixville Early Learning CenterElementary · 613 students
- Manavon Elementary SchoolElementary · 497 students
- Schuylkill Elementary SchoolElementary · 418 students
Other schools in Phoenixville
- Renaissance Academy Charter SchoolCombined · 1,199 students
- Phoenixville Area High SchoolHigh · 1,194 students
- Phoenixville Area Middle SchoolMiddle · 963 students
- Phoenixville Early Learning CenterElementary · 613 students
- Manavon Elementary SchoolElementary · 497 students
- Schuylkill Elementary SchoolElementary · 418 students
Nearby schools
- Phoenixville Area High School0.5 mi · 1,194
- Phoenixville Area Middle School0.6 mi · 963
- Phoenixville Early Learning Center0.7 mi · 613
- Manavon Elementary School0.7 mi · 497
- Renaissance Academy Charter School1.0 mi · 1,199
- Schuylkill Elementary School1.1 mi · 418
Frequently asked questions
About Barkley Elementary SchoolHow large is Barkley Elementary School?
Barkley Elementary School enrolls approximately 281 students in grades 02-05.
Is Barkley Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Barkley Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades 02-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Barkley Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Barkley Elementary School is approximately 9.8:1 (29 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Barkley Elementary School?
Student demographics at Barkley Elementary School are roughly 43% White, 47% Hispanic, 3% Black, 1% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Barkley Elementary School in?
Barkley Elementary School is part of Phoenixville Area SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.