Delta-Peach Bottom El Sch

Located at 1081 Atom Rd, in Delta, Pennsylvania, Delta-Peach Bottom El Sch is an intimate elementary-level community that instructs 255 students (grades K through 4), one of the schools within South Eastern SD. That puts it 42% below the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 443 students.

Within South Eastern SD, which oversees 6 schools and 2,495 students, Delta-Peach Bottom El Sch is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Delta-Peach Bottom El Sch shows that nearly all students (94%) are White. The remainder breaks down as 3% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 81% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully more White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 47% of students at Delta-Peach Bottom El Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Delta-Peach Bottom El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.3%, the actual is 46.8%, a residual of -10.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for York County indicate median household earnings sit near $84,829, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, York County runs 111 public schools (combined enrollment of about 64,242 students), of which Delta-Peach Bottom El Sch is one.

North Harford High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 5.9 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Delta-Peach Bottom El Sch ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 56.7%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 4%: 267 students in 2018 compared to 255 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, the feed for Delta-Peach Bottom El Sch typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.