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Enrollment
409
Elementary
DISTRICT 544 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CENTRAL BUCKS SD·NCES 420531004852
Doyle Elementary School
260 N West St, Doylestown, PA 18901 · (267) 893-4300 · Bucks County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL409 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 85% of Pennsylvania public elementary 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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
12.1:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.6:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
16%
65 students
DISTRICT 13% · 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 | 33 | 8% |
| Grade 1 | 42 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 61 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 74 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 58 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 79 | 19% |
| Grade 6 | 62 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (33) is 47% smaller than its 6th grade class (62).
Student demographics
27%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 41% · 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
79.1%
PA avg 51.1% . -3.0pp since 2023
Math
73.9%
PA avg 43.0% . +3.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 79 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 74 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 79.1% | 73.9% |
| 2023-24 | 82.1% | 70.6% |
% 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
78.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
70.8%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 78% 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 Doyle Elementary School
Doyle Elementary School's state test result (78.3% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Doyle Elementary School this school | 409 | 15.9% | 78.3% |
| Avonworth Primary Center Pittsburgh | 423 | 16.8% | N/A |
| Hopewell Elementary School Center Valley | 426 | 13.8% | 75.6% |
| East Bradford Elementary School West Chester | 455 | 17.4% | 75.4% |
| Buckingham Elementary School Buckingham | 442 | 11.5% | 76.7% |
| Seylar Elementary School Perkasie | 382 | 16.8% | 68.3% |
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 Doyle Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Bucks County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 78.3% | #140 of 1,396 | #10 of 71 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 73.9% | #211 of 1,511 ▲ 20 | #21 of 72 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 79.1% | #77 of 1,511 ▲ 17 | #7 of 72 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 409 | #843 of 1,638 | #45 of 74 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.1:1 | #458 of 1,528 | #20 of 71 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 26.8% | #1,045 of 1,531 | #66 of 71 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 15.9% | #1,493 of 1,600 | #52 of 73 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -16.7% | #389 of 1,045 | #12 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
409
-37 (-8%) vs 2020
-28% since 1990-91, when it was 571
Student : Teacher
12.1:1
was 14.9:1
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 | 409 | 33.9 | 12.1:1 | 16% (65) |
| 2023-24 | 400 | 30.5 | 13.1:1 | 16% (65) |
| 2022-23 | 432 | 29.5 | 14.6:1 | 19% (81) |
| 2020-21 | 446 | 30 | 14.9:1 | 10% (46) |
| 2017-18 | 491 | 29.4 | 16.7:1 | 14% (71) |
| 2015-16 | 479 | 28 | 17.1:1 | 12% (59) |
| 2010-11 | 494 | 29 | 17.0:1 | 12% (60) |
| 2000-01 | 497 | 25 | 19.9:1 | 4% (21) |
| 1990-91 | 571 | 26 | 22.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Doyle Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 17% (491 to 409); teachers up 15% (29.4 to 33.9).
About Doyle Elementary School
Doylestown, Pennsylvania, is home to Doyle Elementary School, a mid-sized elementary school. It enrolls 409 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are kindergarten through 6.
Doyle Elementary School is part of a district of 23 schools: Central Bucks SD, with 16,879 students.
The share of students at Doyle Elementary School who are White is 85%. Enrollment also includes 6% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, and 2% Asian. Bucks County residents are about 81% White, a similar share. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 27, compared with 70 nationally.
Doyle Elementary School has a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.1:1, with 33.9 full-time-equivalent teachers. Compared with the 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania, this school's ratio is lower. The school has 16% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Compared with the 40% average for public schools in Bucks County, the school's rate is lower.
Doyle Elementary School earns an A on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 85% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools.
A school with Doyle Elementary School's lunch-eligibility share in Pennsylvania is predicted to score 70.8%. Doyle Elementary School scores 78.3%, 7.5 points above that line.
In Bucks County, home to about 647,461 people, median household income comes to about $114,764, 45% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 4% of people live in poverty. There are 123 public schools in the county, enrolling about 81,956, Doyle Elementary School among them.
Doyle Elementary School's closest public school neighbor is Lenape Middle School, about 0.3 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Doyle Elementary School is 3rd of 9 on proficiency.
Locale: Suburb: Large. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Federal enrollment counts fell from 446 (2020-21) to 409 (2024-25). Federal data show the ratio falling from 14.9:1 to 12.1:1.
On allk12, people connected to Doyle Elementary School can post about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
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 Central Bucks SD
- Central Bucks HS-SouthHigh · 1,719 students
- Central Bucks HS-WestHigh · 1,391 students
- Central Bucks HS-EastHigh · 1,374 students
- Holicong Middle SchoolMiddle · 907 students
- Tamanend Middle SchoolMiddle · 901 students
- Tohickon Middle SchoolMiddle · 857 students
Other schools in Doylestown
- Central Bucks HS-WestHigh · 1,391 students
- Central Bucks HS-EastHigh · 1,374 students
- Holicong Middle SchoolMiddle · 907 students
- Tohickon Middle SchoolMiddle · 857 students
- Lenape Middle SchoolMiddle · 779 students
- Groveland Elementary SchoolElementary · 763 students
Other Doyle Elementary schools
3 other US public schools in 4 states are named Doyle Elementary. Doyle Elementary School is the 3rd largest of the 4.
- Doyle ElementarySan Diego, CA · 603 students
- Doyle Elementary SchoolLivingston, LA · 580 students
- Doyle ElementaryDoyle, TN · 309 students
Nearby schools
- Lenape Middle School0.3 mi · 779
- Central Bucks HS-West0.5 mi · 1,391
- Linden Elementary School1.4 mi · 353
- Kutz Elementary School1.9 mi · 436
- Pine Run Elementary School2.9 mi · 480
- Gayman Elementary School3.3 mi · 390
Frequently asked questions
About Doyle Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Doyle Elementary School?
Doyle Elementary School enrolls approximately 409 students in grades KG-06.
What grades does Doyle Elementary School serve?
Doyle Elementary School serves grades KG-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Doyle Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Doyle Elementary School is approximately 12.1:1 (34 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Doyle Elementary School?
Doyle Elementary School reports a student body of 85% White, 6% Hispanic, 0% Black, 2% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Doyle Elementary School in?
Doyle Elementary School is part of Central Bucks SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.