Enrollment
265
Elementary
DISTRICT 288 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WILLIAM PENN SD·NCES 422639000104
Bell Avenue School
1000 Bell Ave, Yeadon, PA 19050 · (610) 284-6100 · Delaware County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL265 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 8% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
13.9:1
19 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.1:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
91%
240 students
DISTRICT 102% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 47 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 39 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 35 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 40 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 36 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 32 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 36 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (47) is 31% larger than its 6th grade class (36).
Student demographics
21%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 29% · 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
Bell Avenue School→Penn Wood Middle School
Based on grade levels within William Penn SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
15.0%
PA avg 51.1% . -5.5pp since 2023
Math
14.8%
PA avg 43.0% . +0.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 15 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 15 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 15.0% | 14.8% |
| 2023-24 | 20.5% | 14.0% |
% 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
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of PA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
19.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
38.8%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-19.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 20% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 39% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Bell Avenue School
Bell Avenue School's state test result (19.8% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bell Avenue School this school | 265 | 90.6% | 19.8% |
| Blankenburg Rudolph School Philadelphia | 278 | 92.4% | 9.6% |
| Meade Gen George C School Philadelphia | 314 | 88.9% | 10.3% |
| Urban Pathways K-5 College CS Pittsburgh | 304 | 95.7% | 8.1% |
| Gideon Edward School Philadelphia | 221 | 94.6% | 11.2% |
| Propel CS-Hazelwood Pittsburgh | 230 | 96.5% | 4.8% |
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 Bell Avenue School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Delaware County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 19.8% | #1,292 of 1,396 | #57 of 59 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 14.8% | #1,351 of 1,511 ▼ 15 | #61 of 69 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 15.0% | #1,432 of 1,511 ▼ 35 | #62 of 69 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 265 | #1,364 of 1,638 | #64 of 75 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.9:1 | #1,054 of 1,528 | #54 of 74 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 20.9% | #1,169 of 1,531 | #71 of 74 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 90.6% | #656 of 1,600 | #27 of 73 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -23.0% | #218 of 1,045 | #7 of 45 |
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
265
-41 (-13%) vs 2020
-26% since 2000-01, when it was 359
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
was 17.0:1
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 | 265 | 19 | 13.9:1 | 91% (240) |
| 2023-24 | 240 | 18 | 13.3:1 | 100% (240) |
| 2022-23 | 265 | 18 | 14.7:1 | 100% (265) |
| 2020-21 | 306 | 18 | 17.0:1 | 99% (303) |
| 2017-18 | 344 | 16 | 21.5:1 | 100% (343) |
| 2015-16 | 342 | 17 | 20.1:1 | 82% (280) |
| 2010-11 | 267 | 17 | 15.7:1 | 73% (196) |
| 2000-01 | 359 | 20 | 17.9:1 | 55% (196) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Bell Avenue School.
Since 2017-18: students down 23% (344 to 265); teachers up 19% (16 to 19).
About Bell Avenue School
In Yeadon, Pennsylvania, Bell Avenue School is a low-enrollment elementary school. Students in kindergarten through 6 make up the school's enrollment of 265 students. Elementary schools in Pennsylvania average about 443 students, which makes this school 40% below average.
Bell Avenue School is part of a district of 11 schools: William Penn SD, with 4,499 students.
Of every 100 students at Bell Avenue School, about 89 are Black. Smaller groups are 6% multiracial and 3% White. For comparison, the population of Delaware County is roughly 22% Black. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 21%.
There are 19 full-time-equivalent teachers at Bell Avenue School, giving a ratio of 13.9:1. The school's 13.9:1 compares with an average of 13.1:1 for elementary schools in Pennsylvania. By family income, 91% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That rate is above the 58% average among public schools in Delaware County.
On the allk12 Grade, Bell Avenue School lands at D, ahead of 8% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate across its state test results with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. Bell Avenue School posts 19.8% against a 38.8% prediction, a bottom-10% result in Pennsylvania.
The county, Delaware County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $89,546 a year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Bell Avenue School, Delaware County has 113 public schools.
Measured in a straight line, Penn Wood Middle School is about 0.5 miles from Bell Avenue School. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Bell Avenue School comes in 4th of 7 nearby schools on average proficiency.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Large, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 306 students in 2020-21, enrollment fell to 265 by 2024-25. Students per teacher dropped from 17.0 in 2020-21 to 13.9 in 2024-25.
Use the discussion section to ask about homework, tutoring, and testing dates at Bell Avenue School. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Delaware County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
579,222
Census ACS
Median income
$89,546
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
113
74,663 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in William Penn SD
- Penn Wood High SchoolHigh · 1,148 students
- Penn Wood Middle SchoolMiddle · 667 students
- Ardmore Avenue Elementary SchoolElementary · 535 students
- Penn Wood 9th Grade AcademyHigh · 379 students
- Park Lane Elementary SchoolElementary · 304 students
- W B Evans Elementary SchoolElementary · 304 students
Other schools in Yeadon
- Penn Wood 9th Grade AcademyHigh · 379 students
- W B Evans Elementary SchoolElementary · 304 students
Nearby schools
- Penn Wood Middle School0.5 mi · 667
- Catharine Joseph School0.6 mi · 437
- Park Lane Elementary School0.6 mi · 304
- W B Evans Elementary School0.7 mi · 304
- Penn Wood 9th Grade Academy0.7 mi · 379
- Southwest Leadership Academy CS0.7 mi · 670
Frequently asked questions
About Bell Avenue SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Bell Avenue School?
Bell Avenue School enrolls approximately 265 students in grades KG-06.
Is Bell Avenue School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Bell Avenue School is an elementary school covering grades KG-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Bell Avenue School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Bell Avenue School is approximately 13.9:1 (19 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Bell Avenue School?
Bell Avenue School reports a student body of 3% White, 2% Hispanic, 89% Black, 0% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is Bell Avenue School public or private?
Bell Avenue School is a public K-12 school, overseen by William Penn SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.