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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the Gayman El Sch administration to hear?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Enrollment
390
Elementary
DISTRICT 544 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CENTRAL BUCKS SD·NCES 420531001048
Gayman Elementary School
4440 Point Pleasant Pike, Doylestown, PA 18902 · (267) 893-4350 · Bucks County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL390 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 84% 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
12.8:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.6:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
8%
30 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 | 34 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 53 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 52 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 57 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 60 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 60 | 15% |
| Grade 6 | 74 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (34) is 54% smaller than its 6th grade class (74).
Student demographics
29%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
82.6%
PA avg 51.1% . +0.9pp since 2023
Math
78.4%
PA avg 43.0% . +5.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 83 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 78 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 82.6% | 78.4% |
| 2023-24 | 81.7% | 73.4% |
% 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
80.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
74.3%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 80% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 74% 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 Gayman Elementary School
Gayman Elementary School's state test result (80.3% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gayman Elementary School this school | 390 | 7.7% | 80.3% |
| Fairview Elementary School Pittsburgh | 387 | 7.8% | 95.7% |
| Kutz Elementary School Doylestown | 436 | 8.3% | 78.4% |
| Hance Elementary School Gibsonia | 406 | 7.9% | 70.9% |
| Buckingham Elementary School Buckingham | 442 | 11.5% | 76.7% |
| Linden Elementary School Doylestown | 353 | 10.2% | 74.5% |
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 Gayman Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Bucks County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 80.3% | #102 of 1,396 | #5 of 71 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 78.4% | #134 of 1,511 ▲ 52 | #5 of 72 ▲ 8 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 82.6% | #43 of 1,511 ▲ 58 | #4 of 72 ▲ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 390 | #921 of 1,638 | #52 of 74 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.8:1 | #703 of 1,528 | #36 of 71 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 28.8% | #1,008 of 1,531 | #63 of 71 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 7.7% | #1,586 of 1,600 | #71 of 73 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.3% | #835 of 1,045 | #40 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
390
-16 (-4%) vs 2020
-34% since 1990-91, when it was 595
Student : Teacher
12.8:1
was 13.5:1
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 | 390 | 30.4 | 12.8:1 | 8% (30) |
| 2023-24 | 400 | 31.2 | 12.8:1 | 8% (30) |
| 2022-23 | 414 | 29.5 | 14.0:1 | 9% (37) |
| 2020-21 | 406 | 30 | 13.5:1 | 3% (12) |
| 2017-18 | 412 | 31.9 | 12.9:1 | 5% (20) |
| 2015-16 | 458 | 29 | 15.8:1 | 3% (16) |
| 2010-11 | 539 | 32 | 16.8:1 | 4% (23) |
| 2000-01 | 641 | 23 | 27.9:1 | 3% (20) |
| 1990-91 | 595 | 34 | 17.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Gayman Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 5% (412 to 390); teachers down 5% (31.9 to 30.4).
About Gayman Elementary School
Gayman Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. The school serves 390 students in kindergarten through 6 in 2024-25.
Central Bucks SD counts 23 schools and 16,879 students, including Gayman Elementary School.
The student body at Gayman Elementary School is 84% White. The rest of enrollment is 7% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, and 3% Asian. That is close to the 81% White share among all Bucks County residents. Gayman Elementary School's diversity index is 29%, against a US figure of 70%.
Federal records show a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.8:1 at Gayman Elementary School, with 30.4 full-time-equivalent teachers. That matches the 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania fairly closely. The count of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch equals 8% of enrollment. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Bucks County is 40%.
Measured against Pennsylvania public elementary schools, Gayman Elementary School receives an A-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Gayman Elementary School scores 80.3% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 74.3%.
Federal survey data for Bucks County show that the median household income is $114,764, about 45% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 4% of residents are in poverty. Bucks County is home to 123 public schools and about 81,956 public school students.
The closest public school, Tohickon Middle School, is about 0.4 miles from Gayman Elementary School. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Of the 9 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Gayman Elementary School is 2nd on average proficiency.
Gayman Elementary School falls in the Suburb: Large locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school enrolled 390 students in 2024-25, 16 fewer than the 406 it had in 2020-21.
The allk12 site hosts a discussion page for Gayman Elementary School covering things like sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Reviews and ratings from people who know the school are welcome.
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
Nearby schools
- Tohickon Middle School0.4 mi · 857
- Groveland Elementary School0.8 mi · 763
- Cold Spring Elementary School1.9 mi · 470
- Linden Elementary School2.8 mi · 353
- Doyle Elementary School3.3 mi · 409
- Lenape Middle School3.5 mi · 779
Frequently asked questions
About Gayman Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Gayman Elementary School?
Gayman Elementary School enrolls approximately 390 students in grades KG-06.
What grades does Gayman Elementary School serve?
Gayman Elementary School serves grades KG-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Gayman Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Gayman Elementary School is approximately 12.8:1 (30 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Gayman Elementary School?
At Gayman Elementary School, the student body is approximately 84% White, 5% Hispanic, 1% Black, 3% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is Gayman Elementary School public or private?
Gayman Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Central Bucks SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.