Chatham Park El Sch

Chatham Park El Sch, a mid-tier K-5 school in Havertown, Pennsylvania, run under Haverford Township SD, caters to 582 students, covering grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 31% above typical.

Chatham Park El Sch is one of 7 schools operated by Haverford Township SD, a district that serves 6,477 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Chatham Park El Sch logs that 77% of the student body identifies as White; the rest comes out to 8% multiracial, 6% Asian, 5% Hispanic, 4% Black. The wider county runs roughly 63% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Chatham Park El Sch shows 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Chatham Park El Sch higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 16% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Delaware County (around 58%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Chatham Park El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 70.9%, the actual is 83.4%, a residual of +12.5 points.

In the broader community, census data for Delaware County shows median household earnings sit near $89,546, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Delaware County runs 113 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,663 students), of which Chatham Park El Sch is one.

Nearest neighbor: Haverford SHS, around 0.6 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Chatham Park El Sch comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 60.9%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Chatham Park El Sch has fell 5%, going from 613 students in 2018 to 582 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 86% to 77% across the same window.

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