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Honest take: what's the hardest part about being a student at Churchville El Sch?
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Enrollment
558
Elementary
DISTRICT 500 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·COUNCIL ROCK SD·NCES 420696001088
Churchville Elementary School
100 New Rd, Churchville, PA 18966 · (215) 944-1700 · Bucks County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL558 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 44% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Pennsylvania public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.1:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
15%
84 students
DISTRICT 16% · STATE 75%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 55 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 78 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 73 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 100 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 79 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 98 | 18% |
| Grade 6 | 75 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (55) is 27% smaller than its 6th grade class (75).
Student demographics
19%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 33% · STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
55.0%
PA avg 51.1% . -4.2pp since 2023
Math
62.8%
PA avg 43.0% . -0.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 63 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 4 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 55.0% | 62.8% |
| 2023-24 | 59.2% | 62.9% |
% Proficient or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: PSSA + Keystone. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
62.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
71.2%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 62% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 71% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Pennsylvania's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Churchville Elementary School
Churchville Elementary School's state test result (62.3% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Churchville Elementary School this school | 558 | 15.1% | 62.3% |
| McMurray Elementary School McMurray | 608 | 12.2% | 86.3% |
| New Hanover-Upper Frederick Elementary School Frederick | 606 | 17.8% | 57.5% |
| Mars Area Primary Center Mars | 506 | 11.5% | N/A |
| Pleasant Valley Elementary School McMurray | 495 | 11.5% | 94.8% |
| Mountain View Elementary School Greensburg | 534 | 18.9% | 69.6% |
Matched among Pennsylvania elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Churchville Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Bucks County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 62.3% | #514 of 1,396 | #47 of 71 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 62.8% | #455 of 1,511 ▼ 51 | #45 of 72 ▼ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 55.0% | #587 of 1,511 ▲ 60 | #46 of 72 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 558 | #358 of 1,638 | #23 of 74 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.1:1 | #1,082 of 1,528 | #56 of 71 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 18.5% | #1,215 of 1,531 | #70 of 71 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 15.1% | #1,509 of 1,600 | #57 of 73 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.6% | #619 of 1,045 | #25 of 50 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
558
+27 (+5%) vs 2020
-21% since 1990-91, when it was 705
Student : Teacher
14.1:1
was 14.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 558 | 39.6 | 14.1:1 | 15% (84) |
| 2023-24 | 557 | 38.6 | 14.4:1 | 15% (84) |
| 2022-23 | 556 | 38.6 | 14.4:1 | 13% (71) |
| 2020-21 | 531 | 38 | 14.0:1 | 12% (66) |
| 2017-18 | 624 | 40.5 | 15.4:1 | 11% (69) |
| 2015-16 | 621 | 38 | 16.3:1 | 11% (68) |
| 2010-11 | 645 | 41 | 15.7:1 | 4% (28) |
| 2000-01 | 670 | 37 | 18.1:1 | 2% (15) |
| 1990-91 | 705 | 41 | 17.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Churchville Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 11% (624 to 558); teachers down 2% (40.5 to 39.6).
About Churchville Elementary School
Churchville Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in Churchville, Pennsylvania, one of the schools in Council Rock SD. The school offers kindergarten through 6 and enrolls 558 students. That puts enrollment 26% above the 443-student average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania.
District-wide, Council Rock SD has 14 schools and 10,391 students.
At Churchville Elementary School, 90% of students are White. The remaining students are 3% Asian, 3% multiracial, and 2% Hispanic. Census figures show Bucks County is about 81% White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Churchville Elementary School scores 19%.
Churchville Elementary School has 39.6 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 14.1:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania is 13.1:1. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 15% at Churchville Elementary School. That is lower than the 40% average for public schools in Bucks County.
Churchville Elementary School holds a C+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 44% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools.
In Pennsylvania, Churchville Elementary School is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 62.3% actual against a predicted 71.2%.
For the population of Bucks County, the median household earns about $114,764 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 45% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 4%. Churchville Elementary School shares Bucks County with 122 other public schools.
Klinger Middle School is about 0.9 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Within five miles of Churchville Elementary School, there are at least 8 other public schools. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Churchville Elementary School ranks 5th of 9 on average proficiency.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment increased 5% over 4 years, reaching 558 in 2024-25.
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Bucks County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
647,461
Census ACS
Median income
$114,764
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
45%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
123
81,956 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Council Rock SD
- Council Rock HS SouthHigh · 1,921 students
- Council Rock HS NorthHigh · 1,674 students
- Holland Middle SchoolMiddle · 960 students
- Newtown Middle SchoolMiddle · 833 students
- Goodnoe Elementary SchoolElementary · 668 students
- Sol Feinstone Elementary SchoolElementary · 644 students
Other schools in Churchville
- Maureen M Welch Elementary SchoolElementary · 521 students
Other Churchville Elementary schools
3 other US public schools in 4 states are named Churchville Elementary. Churchville Elementary School is the largest of the 4.
- Churchville ElementaryChurchville, VA · 448 students
- CHURCHVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLCHURCHVILLE, NY · 421 students
- Churchville ElementaryChurchville, MD · 364 students
Nearby schools
- Klinger Middle School0.9 mi · 599
- Davis Elementary School1.2 mi · 785
- Maureen M Welch Elementary School1.3 mi · 521
- Richboro Elementary School1.4 mi · 377
- Holland Elementary School1.8 mi · 425
- McDonald Elementary School2.5 mi · 837
Frequently asked questions
About Churchville Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Churchville Elementary School?
Churchville Elementary School enrolls approximately 558 students in grades KG-06.
Is Churchville Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Churchville Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Churchville Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Churchville Elementary School is approximately 14.1:1 (40 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Churchville Elementary School?
Student demographics at Churchville Elementary School are roughly 90% White, 2% Hispanic, 1% Black, 3% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is Churchville Elementary School public or private?
Churchville Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Council Rock SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.