Bywood El Sch

Set in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, Bywood El Sch is a high-enrollment K-5 school, run under Upper Darby SD. It caters to 683 students across grades 1 through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 54% bigger than the state mean of about 443.

Upper Darby SD runs 13 schools in total, collectively educating 12,173 students. Bywood El Sch is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Bywood El Sch records that the largest single group is Black at 45%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 33% Hispanic, 15% Asian, 4% White, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Delaware County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 95% of students at Bywood El Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Delaware County runs at roughly 58%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Bywood El Sch sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 36.7%; actual is 19.2%, a gap of -17.5 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Delaware County put median household income runs about $89,546, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Delaware County's 113 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,663 students), Bywood El Sch is one campus in the mix.

Beverly Hills MS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Bywood El Sch at 5th of 6; the average score across the group is 26.6%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Bywood El Sch's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 683 (now 683). The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 14% to 33% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 today.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.