East Fallowfield El Sch

East Fallowfield El Sch, a tight-knit primary school in East Fallowfield, Pennsylvania, overseen by Coatesville Area SD, serves 281 students, covering grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 37% smaller than the state mean of about 443.

Coatesville Area SD comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 5,142 students; East Fallowfield El Sch is among them.

Demographically, East Fallowfield El Sch lists that the most-represented group is Black (33%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 33% White, 25% Hispanic, 9% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 5%.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting East Fallowfield El Sch tighter than the state norm the norm. About 113% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Chester County runs at roughly 38%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Chester County indicate median household earnings sit near $127,208, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Chester County's 111 public schools (combined enrollment of about 83,468 students), East Fallowfield El Sch is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Scott MS, around 2.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around East Fallowfield El Sch.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Trend over the last 7 years. East Fallowfield El Sch's enrollment has contracted 8% since 2018, when it stood at 307 (now 281). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 54% to 33%. Class-load math has fell: from 12.2:1 in 2018 to 10.6:1 in 2025.

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