Garrettford El Sch

Garrettford El Sch, an average-sized elementary school in Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania, operated by Upper Darby SD, enrolls 529 students, covering grades 1 through 5.

Upper Darby SD comprises 13 schools with combined enrollment of 12,173 students; Garrettford El Sch is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Garrettford El Sch lists that 45% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 25% White, 11% multiracial, 10% Hispanic, 9% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 22% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Garrettford El Sch lists 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.3:1. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 105% of students at Garrettford El Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Delaware County (around 58%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Garrettford El Sch tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 32.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 34.5%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Delaware County shows median household earnings sit near $89,546, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Garrettford El Sch is one of 113 public schools in Delaware County (combined enrollment of about 74,663 students).

The closest other public school is Charles Kelly El Sch, roughly 0.7 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Garrettford El Sch comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 32.6%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Garrettford El Sch has edged down 14%, going from 618 students in 2018 to 529 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 44% to 25% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 today.

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