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How has Boyertown El Sch changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
632
Elementary
DISTRICT 457 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BOYERTOWN AREA SD·NCES 420396006307
Boyertown Elementary School
641 E Second St, Boyertown, PA 19512 · (610) 369-7462 · Berks County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL632 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 41% 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.
- CBeats 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
15.8:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.1:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
37%
232 students
DISTRICT 35% · 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 | 88 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 110 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 108 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 114 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 103 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 109 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (88) is 19% smaller than its 5th grade class (109).
Student demographics
34%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 28% · 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
51.9%
PA avg 51.1% . -2.8pp since 2023
Math
56.1%
PA avg 43.0% . +3.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 56 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 51.9% | 56.1% |
| 2023-24 | 54.7% | 52.2% |
% 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
57.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
61.9%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 57% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 62% 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 Boyertown Elementary School
Boyertown Elementary School's state test result (57.2% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boyertown Elementary School this school | 632 | 36.7% | 57.2% |
| Doe Run Elementary School Manheim | 672 | 35.7% | 58.9% |
| Kissel Hill Elementary School Lititz | 579 | 33.7% | 60.3% |
| Greencastle-Antrim Elementary School Greencastle | 671 | 36.4% | 62.7% |
| Asbury Elementary School Fairview | 572 | 36.5% | 67.9% |
| Sporting Hill Elementary School Mechanicsburg | 580 | 34.0% | 60.3% |
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 Boyertown Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Berks County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 57.2% | #672 of 1,396 | #16 of 44 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 56.1% | #649 of 1,511 ▲ 43 | #16 of 47 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 51.9% | #675 of 1,511 ▲ 110 | #12 of 47 ▲ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 632 | #204 of 1,638 | #7 of 48 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.8:1 | #1,364 of 1,528 | #46 of 48 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 33.9% | #911 of 1,531 | #26 of 48 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 36.7% | #1,220 of 1,600 | #43 of 48 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +40.1% | #22 of 450 | #1 of 14 |
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
632
+46 (+8%) vs 2020
-13% since 1990-91, when it was 730
Student : Teacher
15.8:1
was 15.4:1
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 | 632 | 40.1 | 15.8:1 | 37% (232) |
| 2023-24 | 629 | 40.1 | 15.7:1 | 37% (232) |
| 2022-23 | 647 | 36.1 | 17.9:1 | 35% (228) |
| 2020-21 | 586 | 38 | 15.4:1 | 31% (184) |
| 2017-18 | 451 | 35.8 | 12.6:1 | 33% (149) |
| 2015-16 | 633 | 42 | 15.1:1 | 33% (211) |
| 2010-11 | 672 | 38 | 17.7:1 | 16% (109) |
| 2000-01 | 643 | 31 | 20.7:1 | 9% (57) |
| 1990-91 | 730 | 42 | 17.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Boyertown Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 40% (451 to 632); teachers up 12% (35.8 to 40.1).
About Boyertown Elementary School
Boyertown Elementary School runs as a medium-sized elementary school in Boyertown, Pennsylvania. It enrolled 632 students in kindergarten through 5 for the 2024-25 school year. Statewide, elementary schools in Pennsylvania average about 443 students each.
The district, Boyertown Area SD, operates 9 schools serving 6,300 students.
White students make up 81% of enrollment at Boyertown Elementary School. Other students are 7% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 4% multiracial, and 3% Black. That is higher than the 70% White share among all Berks County residents. The school's diversity index is 34%, meaning two students picked at random have a 34% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Staffing totals 40.1 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 15.8:1. On average, elementary schools in Pennsylvania have 13.1:1, compared with 15.8:1 here. The free or reduced-price lunch rate at Boyertown Elementary School is 37%. That is lower than the 67% average for public schools in Berks County.
allk12 grades Boyertown Elementary School a C+. The grade compares the school only with Pennsylvania public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Schools in Pennsylvania with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 61.9%. Boyertown Elementary School scores 57.2%.
Census estimates describe Berks County this way: the median household income is $79,777, about 28% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 9%. In all, Berks County has 95 public schools and roughly 62,375 students.
The closest public school to Boyertown Elementary School is Boyertown Area MS-West, about 0.1 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On proficiency, Boyertown Elementary School is ahead of the 53.7% nearby average, ranking 4th of 8.
The NCES locale for Boyertown 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 is up 8% from 2020-21, when Boyertown Elementary School had 586 students, to 2024-25, when it had 632.
The discussion area below is open to posts about sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
Berks County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
433,015
Census ACS
Median income
$79,777
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
95
62,375 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Boyertown Area SD
- Boyertown Area SHSHigh · 2,052 students
- Boyertown Area MS-EastMiddle · 841 students
- Boyertown Area MS-WestMiddle · 668 students
- New Hanover-Upper Frederick Elementary SchoolElementary · 606 students
- Gilbertsville Elementary SchoolElementary · 517 students
- Washington Elementary SchoolElementary · 479 students
Other schools in Boyertown
- Boyertown Area SHSHigh · 2,052 students
- Boyertown Area MS-WestMiddle · 668 students
- Earl Elementary SchoolElementary · 271 students
- Colebrookdale Elementary SchoolElementary · 234 students
Nearby schools
- Boyertown Area MS-West0.1 mi · 668
- Boyertown Area SHS0.5 mi · 2,052
- Colebrookdale Elementary School1.0 mi · 234
- Gilbertsville Elementary School1.2 mi · 517
- Boyertown Area MS-East2.9 mi · 841
- Pottsgrove Middle School3.7 mi · 678
Frequently asked questions
About Boyertown Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Boyertown Elementary School?
Boyertown Elementary School enrolls approximately 632 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Boyertown Elementary School serve?
Boyertown Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at Boyertown Elementary School?
Approximately 15.8:1 students per teacher at Boyertown Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Boyertown Elementary School?
Student demographics at Boyertown Elementary School are roughly 81% White, 7% Hispanic, 3% Black, 5% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Boyertown Elementary School?
Boyertown Elementary School is overseen by Boyertown Area SD in Berks County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.