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What's the most underrated thing about East Coventry El Sch that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
479
Elementary
DISTRICT 527 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·OWEN J ROBERTS SD·NCES 421827010011
East Coventry Elementary School
2461 East Cedarville Road, Pottstown, PA 19465 · (610) 469-5103 · Chester County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL479 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 82% 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.
- B+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
11.7:1
41 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.4:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
29%
141 students
DISTRICT 24% · 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 | 64 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 65 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 53 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 70 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 67 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 96 | 20% |
| Grade 6 | 64 | 13% |
This year's kindergarten class (64) is about the same size as its 6th grade class (64).
Student demographics
45%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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within Owen J Roberts SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
67.5%
PA avg 51.1% . -3.5pp since 2023
Math
75.0%
PA avg 43.0% . +2.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 68 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 75 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 are up about 2 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 67.5% | 75.0% |
| 2023-24 | 71.0% | 72.6% |
% 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
73.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.0%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 73% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 65% 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 East Coventry Elementary School
East Coventry Elementary School's state test result (73.4% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Coventry Elementary School this school | 479 | 29.4% | 73.4% |
| South Elementary School Trappe | 459 | 26.6% | 75.2% |
| Monroe Elementary School Boiling Springs | 512 | 30.3% | 59.8% |
| North Wales Elementary School North Wales | 484 | 26.4% | 69.0% |
| Evergreen Elementary School Collegeville | 465 | 24.3% | 79.8% |
| Greystone Elementary School West Chester | 511 | 25.2% | 67.3% |
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 East Coventry Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Chester County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 73.4% | #228 of 1,396 | #23 of 54 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 75.0% | #189 of 1,511 ▲ 9 | #17 of 56 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 67.5% | #254 of 1,511 ▲ 58 | #26 of 56 ▲ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 479 | #593 of 1,638 | #29 of 62 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.7:1 | #357 of 1,528 | #17 of 60 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 45.0% | #651 of 1,531 | #43 of 60 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 29.4% | #1,336 of 1,600 | #26 of 61 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.2% | #473 of 1,045 | #17 of 40 |
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
479
-38 (-7%) vs 2020
+20% since 2000-01, when it was 398
Student : Teacher
11.7:1
was 13.3:1
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 | 479 | 40.9 | 11.7:1 | 29% (141) |
| 2023-24 | 461 | 39.4 | 11.7:1 | 31% (141) |
| 2022-23 | 470 | 39.1 | 12.0:1 | 28% (131) |
| 2020-21 | 517 | 39 | 13.3:1 | 20% (105) |
| 2017-18 | 558 | 43.7 | 12.8:1 | 21% (116) |
| 2015-16 | 657 | 46 | 14.3:1 | 30% (199) |
| 2010-11 | 578 | 46 | 12.6:1 | 21% (124) |
| 2000-01 | 398 | 27 | 14.7:1 | 20% (79) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for East Coventry Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 14% (558 to 479); teachers down 7% (43.7 to 40.9).
About East Coventry Elementary School
East Coventry Elementary School is an elementary school with a street address in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. It reports enrollment of 479 students in kindergarten through 6.
The 7 schools of Owen J Roberts SD, including East Coventry Elementary School, enroll 5,300 students.
Federal enrollment data show East Coventry Elementary School is 73% White. Next come 9% Hispanic, 7% Asian, 6% multiracial, and 5% Black. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 45%.
Its staff includes 40.9 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 11.7 students per teacher. The average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania, 13.1:1, is higher. East Coventry Elementary School has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 29%. Compared with the 38% average for public schools in Chester County, the school's rate is lower.
On the allk12 Grade, East Coventry Elementary School lands at A-, ahead of 82% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, East Coventry Elementary School falls in the middle 80% of Pennsylvania schools: 73.4% actual against 65.0% predicted.
In the wider Chester County area, the median household earns about $127,208 a year, about 57% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 4% of residents are in poverty. Across Chester County, 111 public schools serve about 83,468 students.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Rupert Elementary School, is about 2.3 miles. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of the 9 nearby schools with scores, including this one, East Coventry Elementary School is 1st on average proficiency.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Large, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 479, compared with 517 in 2020-21. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio dropped to 11.7:1, from 13.3:1.
The East Coventry Elementary School discussion page is a place for homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
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 Owen J Roberts SD
- Owen J Roberts High SchoolHigh · 1,810 students
- Owen J Roberts Middle SchoolMiddle · 856 students
- French Creek Elementary SchoolElementary · 581 students
- North Coventry Elementary SchoolElementary · 532 students
- West Vincent Elementary SchoolElementary · 530 students
- East Vincent Elementary SchoolElementary · 512 students
Other schools in Pottstown
- Owen J Roberts High SchoolHigh · 1,810 students
- Pottsgrove SHSHigh · 973 students
- Pottstown Middle SchoolMiddle · 918 students
- Pottstown High SchoolHigh · 911 students
- Owen J Roberts Middle SchoolMiddle · 856 students
- Pottsgrove Middle SchoolMiddle · 678 students
Nearby schools
- Rupert Elementary School2.3 mi · 379
- North Coventry Elementary School2.5 mi · 532
- East Vincent Elementary School3.0 mi · 512
- Owen J Roberts Middle School3.2 mi · 856
- Pottstown High School3.3 mi · 911
- Owen J Roberts High School3.4 mi · 1,810
Frequently asked questions
About East Coventry Elementary SchoolHow many students attend East Coventry Elementary School?
East Coventry Elementary School enrolls approximately 479 students in grades KG-06.
What grades does East Coventry Elementary School serve?
East Coventry Elementary School serves grades KG-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at East Coventry Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at East Coventry Elementary School is approximately 11.7:1 (41 FTE teachers).
How diverse is East Coventry Elementary School?
East Coventry Elementary School reports a student body of 73% White, 9% Hispanic, 5% Black, 7% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees East Coventry Elementary School?
East Coventry Elementary School is overseen by Owen J Roberts SD in Chester County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.