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Enrollment
451
Elementary
DISTRICT 490 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WEST CHESTER AREA SD·NCES 422529004812
Glen Acres Elementary School
1150 Delancey Pl, West Chester, PA 19382 · (484) 266-1700 · Chester County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL451 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 60% 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.
- C+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
12.6:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.7:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
25%
114 students
DISTRICT 19% · 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 | 67 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 86 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 80 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 62 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 74 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 82 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (67) is 18% smaller than its 5th grade class (82).
Student demographics
42%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 47% · 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
57.7%
PA avg 51.1% . -12.0pp since 2023
Math
67.9%
PA avg 43.0% . +5.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 58 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 68 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 12 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 57.7% | 67.9% |
| 2023-24 | 69.7% | 62.2% |
% 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
67.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
66.8%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 67% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 67% 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 Glen Acres Elementary School
Glen Acres Elementary School's state test result (67.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glen Acres Elementary School this school | 451 | 25.3% | 67.5% |
| Washington Elementary School Pittsburgh | 416 | 23.8% | 73.9% |
| Loganville-Springfield Elementary School York | 461 | 25.8% | 76.4% |
| Jenkintown Elementary School Jenkintown | 401 | 25.7% | 68.4% |
| Evergreen Elementary School Collegeville | 465 | 24.3% | 79.8% |
| Schuylkill Elementary School Phoenixville | 418 | 29.2% | 66.0% |
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 Glen Acres Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Chester County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 67.5% | #366 of 1,396 | #36 of 54 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 67.9% | #318 of 1,511 ▲ 118 | #33 of 56 ▲ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 57.7% | #494 of 1,511 ▼ 143 | #42 of 56 ▼ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 451 | #686 of 1,638 | #35 of 62 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.6:1 | #637 of 1,528 | #31 of 60 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 41.8% | #720 of 1,531 | #48 of 60 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 25.3% | #1,387 of 1,600 | #30 of 61 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -23.8% | #196 of 1,045 | #8 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
451
-103 (-19%) vs 2020
-19% since 1990-91, when it was 556
Student : Teacher
12.6:1
was 14.2:1
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 | 451 | 35.8 | 12.6:1 | 25% (114) |
| 2023-24 | 474 | 35.8 | 13.3:1 | 24% (114) |
| 2022-23 | 485 | 35.1 | 13.8:1 | 24% (116) |
| 2020-21 | 554 | 39 | 14.2:1 | 23% (125) |
| 2017-18 | 592 | 39.2 | 15.1:1 | 20% (116) |
| 2015-16 | 500 | 37 | 13.5:1 | 21% (104) |
| 2010-11 | 478 | 32 | 14.9:1 | 19% (91) |
| 2000-01 | 498 | 27 | 18.4:1 | 6% (29) |
| 1990-91 | 556 | 34 | 16.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Glen Acres Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 24% (592 to 451); teachers down 9% (39.2 to 35.8).
About Glen Acres Elementary School
Glen Acres Elementary School runs as a medium-sized elementary school in West Chester, Pennsylvania. Students in kindergarten through 5 attend, and enrollment is 451 students.
Across its 17 schools, West Chester Area SD enrolls 11,987 students. Glen Acres Elementary School is one of those schools.
White students account for 75% of enrollment at Glen Acres Elementary School. Smaller groups are 8% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 6% Black, and 4% Asian. For comparison, Chester County is about 77% White. Glen Acres Elementary School has a diversity index of 42%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Glen Acres Elementary School employs 35.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 12.6:1. Elementary schools in Pennsylvania average about 13.1:1, a similar figure. Glen Acres Elementary School's free or reduced-price lunch eligibility rate is 25%. The rate at public schools in Chester County averages 38%, higher than here.
The allk12 Grade for Glen Acres Elementary School is B. Compared with Pennsylvania public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 60% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 66.8% for Glen Acres Elementary School. The school posts 67.5%, within a point of the prediction.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Chester County show that median household income is about $127,208, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 57%, and about 4% of people live in poverty. Glen Acres Elementary School is one of 111 public schools in Chester County, which together enroll about 83,468 students.
The closest public school to Glen Acres Elementary School is West Chester East High School, about 0.8 miles away. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. The school's 67.5% average proficiency ranks 3rd among 7 nearby schools.
The school's locale code, Suburb: Large, means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count dropped from 554 to 451. Students per teacher fell from 14.2 in 2020-21 to 12.6 in 2024-25.
Community posts for Glen Acres Elementary School can cover sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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 West Chester Area SD
- West Chester Henderson High SchoolHigh · 1,444 students
- West Chester East High SchoolHigh · 1,216 students
- West Chester Bayard Rustin High SchoolHigh · 1,159 students
- E N Peirce Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,040 students
- J R Fugett Middle SchoolMiddle · 930 students
- Stetson Middle SchoolMiddle · 808 students
Other schools in West Chester
- Pennsylvania Leadership CSCombined · 2,874 students
- West Chester Henderson High SchoolHigh · 1,444 students
- West Chester East High SchoolHigh · 1,216 students
- West Chester Bayard Rustin High SchoolHigh · 1,159 students
- E N Peirce Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,040 students
- 21st Century Cyber CSHigh · 996 students
Other Glen Acres Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Glen Acres Elementary. Glen Acres Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Glen Acres Elementary SchoolLafayette, IN · 550 students
Nearby schools
- West Chester East High School0.8 mi · 1,216
- J R Fugett Middle School0.8 mi · 930
- Fern Hill Elementary School1.2 mi · 408
- 21st Century Cyber CS1.5 mi · 996
- Pennsylvania Leadership CS1.6 mi · 2,874
- West Chester Henderson High School1.8 mi · 1,444
Frequently asked questions
About Glen Acres Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Glen Acres Elementary School?
Glen Acres Elementary School enrolls approximately 451 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Glen Acres Elementary School serve?
Glen Acres Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Glen Acres Elementary School?
Approximately 12.6:1 students per teacher at Glen Acres Elementary School.
How diverse is Glen Acres Elementary School?
Glen Acres Elementary School reports a student body of 75% White, 8% Hispanic, 6% Black, 4% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is Glen Acres Elementary School in?
Glen Acres Elementary School is part of West Chester Area SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.