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Buck El Sch
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PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedBeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Buck El Sch
Set in Langhorne, Pennsylvania, Buck El Sch is an average-sized K-5 school, run under Neshaminy SD. It educates 571 students across grades K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 29% larger than the state mean of about 443.
Buck El Sch is one of 10 schools operated by Neshaminy SD, a district that educates 9,353 students overall.
In terms of who attends, Buck El Sch shows that the largest single group is White, at 80% of enrollment. Other groups include 8% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
In terms of school funding signals, Buck El Sch shows 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Buck El Sch higher than the state norm the norm. Around 19% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than Bucks County's rate of about 40%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Buck El Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 69.4%; this one delivers 72.7%.
In the area at large, the surrounding county (Bucks County) reports that median household income runs about $114,764, roughly 45% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Buck El Sch is one of 123 public schools in Bucks County (combined enrollment of about 81,956 students).
Maple Point MS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Buck El Sch at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 68.2%.
The school occupies an outer-ring site.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 566 students in 2018 compared to 571 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 18.3:1 in 2018 to 16.9:1 in 2025.
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