Chestnutwold El Sch

As a middle-of-the-pack primary school in Ardmore, Pennsylvania, Chestnutwold El Sch works with 566 students from grades K through 5, one of the schools within Haverford Township SD. Enrollment runs roughly 28% above the state mean of about 443.

Across the 7 schools in Haverford Township SD (6,477 students total), Chestnutwold El Sch accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Chestnutwold El Sch reports that the largest single group is White, at 79% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 9% multiracial, 5% Black, 4% Hispanic, 2% Asian. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 63%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 15% of students at Chestnutwold El Sch qualify 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 noticeably below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Chestnutwold El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 71.1%, the actual is 77.9%, a residual of +6.8 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Delaware County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $89,546 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Delaware County runs 113 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,663 students), of which Chestnutwold El Sch is one.

Nearest neighbor: Haverford SHS, around 0.9 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Chestnutwold El Sch at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 81.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Chestnutwold El Sch's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 577 (now 566). Over the same period, the White share fell from 83% to 79%. Class-load math has fell: from 16.7:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 in 2025.

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