Enrollment
329
Elementary
DISTRICT 364 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PENNRIDGE SD·NCES 421875001054
Deibler Elementary School
1122 W Schwenkmill Rd, Perkasie, PA 18944 · (215) 257-1146 · Bucks County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL329 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 61% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- A-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
14.6:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.6:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
19%
61 students
DISTRICT 27% · STATE 75%
Community
0
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 | 34 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 63 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 63 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 50 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 62 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 57 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (34) is 40% smaller than its 5th grade class (57).
Student demographics
29%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 35% · 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
53.8%
PA avg 51.1% . -12.0pp since 2023
Math
69.6%
PA avg 43.0% . -3.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 54 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 70 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 12 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 53.8% | 69.6% |
| 2023-24 | 65.8% | 72.7% |
% 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
69.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.7%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 69% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 70% 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 Deibler Elementary School
Deibler Elementary School's state test result (69.2% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deibler Elementary School this school | 329 | 18.5% | 69.2% |
| Seylar Elementary School Perkasie | 382 | 16.8% | 68.3% |
| Wylandville Elementary School Eighty Four | 318 | 19.5% | 81.6% |
| Bedminster Elementary School Perkasie | 399 | 18.5% | 73.6% |
| Doyle Elementary School Doylestown | 409 | 15.9% | 78.3% |
| Borland Manor Elementary School Canonsburg | 273 | 22.0% | 77.0% |
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 Deibler Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Bucks County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 69.2% | #312 of 1,396 | #31 of 71 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 69.6% | #280 of 1,511 ▼ 85 | #32 of 72 ▼ 17 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 53.8% | #630 of 1,511 ▼ 180 | #47 of 72 ▼ 9 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 329 | #1,138 of 1,638 | #62 of 74 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.6:1 | #1,183 of 1,528 | #60 of 71 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 28.9% | #1,005 of 1,531 | #62 of 71 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 18.5% | #1,462 of 1,600 | #45 of 73 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -22.8% | #222 of 1,045 | #5 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
329
-47 (-12%) vs 2020
-21% since 1990-91, when it was 415
Student : Teacher
14.6:1
was 16.4:1
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 | 329 | 22.6 | 14.6:1 | 19% (61) |
| 2023-24 | 332 | 20.1 | 16.5:1 | 18% (61) |
| 2022-23 | 358 | 24.1 | 14.9:1 | 22% (79) |
| 2020-21 | 376 | 23 | 16.4:1 | 19% (71) |
| 2017-18 | 426 | 21.9 | 19.4:1 | 17% (71) |
| 2015-16 | 460 | 26 | 17.7:1 | 17% (76) |
| 2010-11 | 499 | 27 | 18.5:1 | 11% (54) |
| 2000-01 | 425 | 25 | 17.0:1 | 7% (30) |
| 1990-91 | 415 | 24 | 17.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Deibler Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 23% (426 to 329); teachers up 3% (21.9 to 22.6).
About Deibler Elementary School
Deibler Elementary School, a small elementary school, is located in Perkasie, Pennsylvania. The school runs kindergarten through 5 and enrolls 329 students. That compares with an average of about 443 students for elementary schools in Pennsylvania.
The district, Pennridge SD, has 5,968 students enrolled across 11 schools.
Roughly 84% of students at Deibler Elementary School are White. Enrollment also includes 10% Hispanic and 4% multiracial. Bucks County residents are about 81% White, a similar share. The diversity index for Deibler Elementary School is 29%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Deibler Elementary School has 22.6 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 14.6:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania is 13.1:1. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 19% at Deibler Elementary School. That is lower than the 40% average for public schools in Bucks County.
Among Pennsylvania public elementary schools, Deibler Elementary School outscored 61%, which works out to a B on the allk12 Grade.
Deibler Elementary School scores 69.2% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 69.7%.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Bucks County show that the median household earns about $114,764 a year, about 45% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 4%. Across Bucks County, 123 public schools serve about 81,956 students.
Pennridge North Middle School, about 0.7 miles away, is the closest public school. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Ranked by average proficiency, Deibler Elementary School places 1st out of 8 schools in its immediate area.
NCES describes the area around Deibler Elementary School as Rural: Fringe, meaning in rural territory close to an urban area.
Enrollment decreased 12% over 4 years, reaching 329 in 2024-25. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 16.4:1 to 14.6:1.
The allk12 page for Deibler Elementary School lets the school community talk about athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. You can also rate the school on this page.
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 Pennridge SD
- Pennridge High SchoolHigh · 2,125 students
- Pennridge North Middle SchoolMiddle · 510 students
- Pennridge Central Middle SchoolMiddle · 456 students
- Bedminster Elementary SchoolElementary · 399 students
- Patricia A Guth Elementary SchoolElementary · 399 students
- Grasse Elementary SchoolElementary · 394 students
Other schools in Perkasie
- Pennridge High SchoolHigh · 2,125 students
- Pennridge North Middle SchoolMiddle · 510 students
- Pennridge Central Middle SchoolMiddle · 456 students
- Bedminster Elementary SchoolElementary · 399 students
- Patricia A Guth Elementary SchoolElementary · 399 students
- Seylar Elementary SchoolElementary · 382 students
Nearby schools
- Pennridge North Middle School0.7 mi · 510
- Pennridge High School0.8 mi · 2,125
- Patricia A Guth Elementary School1.6 mi · 399
- Pennridge South Middle School2.8 mi · 332
- Upper Bucks County Technical School3.1 mi · 30
- Strayer Middle School3.3 mi · 737
Frequently asked questions
About Deibler Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Deibler Elementary School?
Deibler Elementary School enrolls approximately 329 students in grades KG-05.
Is Deibler Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Deibler Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many teachers does Deibler Elementary School have?
Deibler Elementary School employs 23 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.6:1.
How diverse is Deibler Elementary School?
Deibler Elementary School reports a student body of 84% White, 10% Hispanic, 1% Black, 2% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Deibler Elementary School?
Deibler Elementary School is overseen by Pennridge SD in Bucks County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.