General Wayne El Sch

Set in Malvern, Pennsylvania, General Wayne El Sch is a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus, operated by Great Valley SD. It instructs 542 students across grades K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 22% bigger than the state mean of about 443.

Across the 7 schools in Great Valley SD (4,822 students total), General Wayne El Sch accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, General Wayne El Sch logs that 56% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school shows 29% Asian, 7% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Black. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 77%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 17% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Chester County's rate of about 38%.

After controlling for student poverty, General Wayne El Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 70.2%; this one delivers 75.6%.

Across the wider county, census data for Chester County shows median household income runs about $127,208, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Chester County runs 111 public schools (combined enrollment of about 83,468 students), of which General Wayne El Sch is one.

Sugartown El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.6 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, General Wayne El Sch comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 76.7%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 22%: 444 students in 2018 compared to 542 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment expanded from 9% to 29% over that span.

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