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Enrollment
1,796
High
DISTRICT 1,489 · STATE 738
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DOWNINGTOWN AREA SD·NCES 420771001387
Downingtown HS West Campus
445 Manor Ave, Downingtown, PA 19335 · (610) 269-4400 · Chester County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL1,796 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 84% of Pennsylvania public high schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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 high schools
Student : Teacher
13.1:1
137 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
19%
340 students
DISTRICT 15% · STATE 75%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 434 | 24% |
| Grade 10 | 484 | 27% |
| Grade 11 | 421 | 23% |
| Grade 12 | 457 | 25% |
Student demographics
39%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 53% · 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
74.4%
PA avg 51.1% . -7.2pp since 2023
Math
70.0%
PA avg 43.0% . +7.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 74 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 74.4% | 70.0% |
| 2023-24 | 81.6% | 62.8% |
% 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
71.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.5%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 72% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% 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 Downingtown HS West Campus
Downingtown HS West Campus's state test result (71.8% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Downingtown HS West Campus this school | 1,796 | 18.9% | 71.8% |
| Mt Lebanon SHS Pittsburgh | 1,772 | 18.7% | 86.6% |
| Owen J Roberts High School Pottstown | 1,810 | 21.9% | 64.5% |
| Central Bucks HS-West Doylestown | 1,391 | 16.8% | 73.3% |
| Council Rock HS South Holland | 1,921 | 17.6% | 73.6% |
| Haverford SHS Havertown | 1,994 | 21.4% | 79.6% |
Matched among Pennsylvania high 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 Downingtown HS West Campus ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Chester County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 71.8% | #60 of 576 | #5 of 17 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 70.0% | #52 of 626 ▲ 23 | #4 of 17 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 74.4% | #109 of 626 ▼ 39 | #8 of 17 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,796 | #47 of 713 | #3 of 20 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.1:1 | #229 of 601 | #4 of 17 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 39.3% | #228 of 604 | #15 of 17 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 18.9% | #596 of 619 | #14 of 17 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +14.9% | #56 of 221 | #5 of 9 |
Ranked against other public high 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
1,796
-17 (-1%) vs 2020
+5% since 1990-91, when it was 1,718
Student : Teacher
13.1:1
was 14.4:1
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 | 1,796 | 137.1 | 13.1:1 | 19% (340) |
| 2023-24 | 1,808 | 136.9 | 13.2:1 | 19% (340) |
| 2022-23 | 1,798 | 135.8 | 13.2:1 | 16% (280) |
| 2020-21 | 1,813 | 126 | 14.4:1 | 14% (254) |
| 2017-18 | 1,563 | 109.2 | 14.3:1 | N/A |
| 2015-16 | 1,460 | 105 | 13.9:1 | 14% (208) |
| 2010-11 | 1,723 | 119 | 14.5:1 | 6% (101) |
| 2000-01 | 1,953 | 130 | 15.0:1 | 0% (0) |
| 1990-91 | 1,718 | 109 | 15.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Downingtown HS West Campus.
Since 2017-18: students up 15% (1,563 to 1,796); teachers up 26% (109.2 to 137.1).
About Downingtown HS West Campus
Downingtown HS West Campus is a high-enrollment high school found in Downingtown, Pennsylvania. The school serves grades 9 through 12. Enrollment is 1,796 students. That is 143% larger than the average of about 738 students for high schools in Pennsylvania.
Downingtown Area SD counts 16 schools and 13,047 students, including Downingtown HS West Campus.
At Downingtown HS West Campus, 77% of students are White. Smaller groups are 7% Asian, 7% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, and 4% Black. Census estimates put Chester County at about 77% White, close to the school's figure. The diversity index for Downingtown HS West Campus is 39%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The school had 137.1 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25. Its student-to-teacher ratio is 13.1:1. That is in line with the 12.8:1 average for high schools in Pennsylvania. The school reported 19% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. That is 19 points below the 38% average for public schools in Chester County.
Downingtown HS West Campus holds an A- allk12 Grade, placing it above 84% of Pennsylvania public high schools.
Downingtown HS West Campus posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 71.8%, compared with a predicted 69.5%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Pennsylvania schools on BeatsExpectations.
Census data for Chester County show median household income comes to about $127,208, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 57%, and about 4% of people live in poverty. There are 111 public schools in the county, enrolling about 83,468, Downingtown HS West Campus among them.
Downingtown Middle School, about 0.2 miles away, is the closest public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Among the 8 closest schools with test data, this one included, Downingtown HS West Campus ranks 6th on average proficiency.
NCES assigns Downingtown HS West Campus the locale Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment went from 1,813 in 2020-21 to 1,796 in 2024-25, a change of 17 students. The ratio was 14.4:1 in 2020-21 and 13.1:1 in 2024-25.
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Chester County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
547,840
Census ACS
Median income
$127,208
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
57%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
111
83,468 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Downingtown Area SD
- Downingtown HS East CampusHigh · 1,708 students
- Downingtown Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,074 students
- Marsh Creek Sixth Grade CenterMiddle · 1,066 students
- Lionville Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,045 students
- Downingtown STEM AcademyHigh · 962 students
- Lionville Elementary SchoolElementary · 668 students
Other schools in Downingtown
- Downingtown Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,074 students
- Marsh Creek Sixth Grade CenterMiddle · 1,066 students
- Downingtown STEM AcademyHigh · 962 students
- Lionville Elementary SchoolElementary · 668 students
- West Bradford Elementary SchoolElementary · 623 students
- East Ward Elementary SchoolElementary · 549 students
Nearby schools
- Downingtown Middle School0.2 mi · 1,074
- Downingtown STEM Academy0.2 mi · 962
- Beaver Creek Elementary School0.6 mi · 531
- East Ward Elementary School1.2 mi · 549
- Bradford Hgts Elementary School1.5 mi · 534
- Chester County Technical College High School - Brandywine1.9 mi · 75
Frequently asked questions
About Downingtown HS West CampusWhat is the total enrollment at Downingtown HS West Campus?
Downingtown HS West Campus enrolls approximately 1,796 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does Downingtown HS West Campus serve?
Downingtown HS West Campus serves grades 09-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Downingtown HS West Campus?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Downingtown HS West Campus is approximately 13.1:1 (137 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Downingtown HS West Campus?
Downingtown HS West Campus reports a student body of 77% White, 7% Hispanic, 4% Black, 7% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Downingtown HS West Campus?
Downingtown HS West Campus is overseen by Downingtown Area SD in Chester County.
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