Chestnut Hill El Sch

As a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in Erie, Pennsylvania, Chestnut Hill El Sch serves 403 students from grades K through 5, part of Millcreek Township SD.

Millcreek Township SD comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 6,363 students; Chestnut Hill El Sch is among them.

Looking at the student body, Chestnut Hill El Sch reports that White students make up the majority at 79%. Other groups include 9% multiracial, 4% Black, 4% Asian, 3% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Erie County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 52% of students at Chestnut Hill El Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Erie County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Chestnut Hill El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.4%, the actual is 69.6%, a residual of +14.3 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Erie County) logs that median household income runs about $63,354, 30% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Chestnut Hill El Sch is one of 68 public schools in Erie County (combined enrollment of about 35,738 students).

The closest other public school is James S Wilson MS, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Chestnut Hill El Sch. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Chestnut Hill El Sch ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 38.6%.

Chestnut Hill El Sch operates from a suburban location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Chestnut Hill El Sch has grew 5%, going from 382 students in 2018 to 403 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 83% to 79% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 in 2025.

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