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Enrollment
531
Elementary
DISTRICT 540 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DOWNINGTOWN AREA SD·NCES 420771001391
Beaver Creek Elementary School
601 W Pennsylvania Ave, Downingtown, PA 19335 · (610) 269-2790 · Chester County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL531 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 79% 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.
- BBeats 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
13.4:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.0:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
17%
90 students
DISTRICT 15% · 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 | 76 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 70 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 88 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 112 | 21% |
| Grade 4 | 91 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 94 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (76) is 19% smaller than its 5th grade class (94).
Student demographics
47%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
Beaver Creek Elementary School→Marsh Creek Sixth Grade Center
Based on grade levels within Downingtown Area SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
71.8%
PA avg 51.1% . -4.4pp since 2023
Math
76.9%
PA avg 43.0% . +6.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 72 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 71.8% | 76.9% |
| 2023-24 | 76.2% | 70.1% |
% 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
75.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
70.3%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 76% 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 Beaver Creek Elementary School
Beaver Creek Elementary School's state test result (75.7% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beaver Creek Elementary School this school | 531 | 16.9% | 75.7% |
| Wayne Elementary School Wayne | 525 | 16.6% | 80.4% |
| Evans Elementary School Limerick | 546 | 18.1% | 73.3% |
| Titus Elementary School Warrington | 566 | 15.7% | 67.9% |
| Afton Elementary School Yardley | 483 | 18.8% | 81.2% |
| General Nash Elementary School Harleysville | 465 | 17.8% | 72.9% |
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 Beaver Creek Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Chester County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 75.7% | #184 of 1,396 | #17 of 54 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 76.9% | #155 of 1,511 ▲ 86 | #15 of 56 ▲ 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 71.8% | #184 of 1,511 ▲ 5 | #20 of 56 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 531 | #441 of 1,638 | #19 of 62 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.4:1 | #870 of 1,528 | #45 of 60 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 47.2% | #600 of 1,531 | #39 of 60 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 16.9% | #1,484 of 1,600 | #42 of 61 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +12.7% | #152 of 450 | #6 of 20 |
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
531
+60 (+13%) vs 2020
+7% since 1990-91, when it was 495
Student : Teacher
13.4:1
was 14.3:1
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 | 531 | 39.7 | 13.4:1 | 17% (90) |
| 2023-24 | 503 | 37.2 | 13.5:1 | 18% (90) |
| 2022-23 | 527 | 38.2 | 13.8:1 | 19% (100) |
| 2020-21 | 471 | 33 | 14.3:1 | 17% (81) |
| 2017-18 | 471 | 34 | 13.9:1 | 18% (85) |
| 2015-16 | 436 | 31 | 14.1:1 | 17% (72) |
| 2010-11 | 434 | 29 | 15.0:1 | 11% (48) |
| 2000-01 | 450 | 28 | 16.1:1 | 6% (26) |
| 1990-91 | 495 | 25 | 19.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Beaver Creek Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 13% (471 to 531); teachers up 17% (34 to 39.7).
About Beaver Creek Elementary School
Beaver Creek Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school with an address in Downingtown, Pennsylvania. Its grade span covers kindergarten through 5, with 531 students on the rolls.
Downingtown Area SD has a total of 16 schools and 13,047 students, Beaver Creek Elementary School among them.
The share of White students at Beaver Creek Elementary School is 71%, a majority. The remaining students are 14% Asian, 8% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, and 3% Black. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 47, compared with 70 nationally.
Beaver Creek Elementary School lists 39.7 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 13.4 students per teacher. That is in line with the 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania. About 17% of students at Beaver Creek Elementary School are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The 38% average for public schools in Chester County is 21 points higher.
On the allk12 Grade, Beaver Creek Elementary School lands at A-, ahead of 79% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools.
Compared with Pennsylvania schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Beaver Creek Elementary School's results are 5.4 points above predicted: 75.7% against 70.3%.
Looking at the county, Chester County, the median household earns about $127,208 a year, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Beaver Creek Elementary School, Chester County has 111 public schools.
Beaver Creek Elementary School is about 0.6 miles from Downingtown STEM Academy, its nearest public school. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Local comparison: Beaver Creek Elementary School ranks 3rd of 8 nearby schools, at 75.7% versus a 70.2% average.
Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Large: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 471 students in 2020-21, enrollment rose to 531 by 2024-25.
Beaver Creek Elementary School has a community page on allk12 for topics such as pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. You can also rate the school on this page.
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 Downingtown Area SD
- Downingtown HS West CampusHigh · 1,796 students
- Downingtown HS East CampusHigh · 1,708 students
- Downingtown Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,074 students
- Marsh Creek Sixth Grade CenterMiddle · 1,066 students
- Lionville Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,045 students
- Downingtown STEM AcademyHigh · 962 students
Other schools in Downingtown
- Downingtown HS West CampusHigh · 1,796 students
- Downingtown Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,074 students
- Marsh Creek Sixth Grade CenterMiddle · 1,066 students
- Downingtown STEM AcademyHigh · 962 students
- Lionville Elementary SchoolElementary · 668 students
- West Bradford Elementary SchoolElementary · 623 students
Other Beaver Creek Elementary schools
2 other US public schools in 3 states are named Beaver Creek Elementary. Beaver Creek Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 3.
- Beaver Creek Elementary SchoolJohnston, IA · 575 students
- Beaver Creek Elementary SchoolTopmost, KY · 183 students
Nearby schools
- Downingtown STEM Academy0.6 mi · 962
- Downingtown HS West Campus0.6 mi · 1,796
- Downingtown Middle School0.8 mi · 1,074
- Bradford Hgts Elementary School1.0 mi · 534
- East Ward Elementary School1.5 mi · 549
- Caln Elementary School1.6 mi · 440
Frequently asked questions
About Beaver Creek Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Beaver Creek Elementary School?
Beaver Creek Elementary School enrolls approximately 531 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Beaver Creek Elementary School serve?
Beaver Creek Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Beaver Creek Elementary School?
Approximately 13.4:1 students per teacher at Beaver Creek Elementary School.
How diverse is Beaver Creek Elementary School?
Beaver Creek Elementary School reports a student body of 71% White, 8% Hispanic, 3% Black, 14% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Beaver Creek Elementary School?
Beaver Creek Elementary School is overseen by Downingtown Area SD in Chester County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.