Glen Acres El Sch

Set in West Chester, Pennsylvania, Glen Acres El Sch is an average-sized elementary campus, one of the schools within West Chester Area SD. It instructs 451 students across grades K through 5.

West Chester Area SD runs 17 schools in total, collectively educating 11,987 students. Glen Acres El Sch is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Glen Acres El Sch shows that White students make up the majority at 75%; the rest breaks down as 8% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 6% Black, 4% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with Chester County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.6:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 25% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Chester County runs at roughly 38%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Glen Acres El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 66.8%, the actual is 67.5%, a residual of +0.7 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Chester County) reports that 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%. In all, Chester County runs 111 public schools (combined enrollment of about 83,468 students), of which Glen Acres El Sch is one.

Nearest neighbor: West Chester East HS, around 0.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Glen Acres El Sch. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Glen Acres El Sch ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 65.7%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Five-year trend. Glen Acres El Sch's enrollment has declined 24% since 2018, when it stood at 592 (now 451). Over the same period, the Asian share edged down from 17% to 4%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 in 2025.

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