Bell Avenue School

As an intimate K-5 school in Yeadon, Pennsylvania, Bell Avenue School instructs 265 students from grades K through 6, run under William Penn SD. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 40% smaller than typical.

Bell Avenue School is one of 11 schools operated by William Penn SD, a district that teaches 4,499 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Bell Avenue School shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (89%). The remainder is composed of 6% multiracial, 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 22% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. An estimated 91% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Delaware County (around 58%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Bell Avenue School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 38.8%; this one comes in at 19.8%, -19.0 points off the demographic line.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Delaware County put median household income runs about $89,546, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Delaware County runs 113 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,663 students), of which Bell Avenue School is one.

Penn Wood MS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Bell Avenue School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 23.7%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Bell Avenue School has fell 23%, going from 344 students in 2018 to 265 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 94% to 89% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 21.5:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 in 2025.

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