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Green Valley El Sch
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedWhat this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 51 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 1 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 56% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 65% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Green Valley El Sch
Green Valley El Sch is a mid-sized elementary school in Sinking Spring, Pennsylvania, overseen by Wilson SD. The school serves 505 students in grades K through 5.
Within Wilson SD, which oversees 8 schools and 6,444 students, Green Valley El Sch is one campus in the system.
On demographics, Green Valley El Sch logs that 71% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 19% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Asian, 2% Black. Compared to Berks County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Green Valley El Sch tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 28% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is below Berks County's rate of about 67%.
After controlling for student poverty, Green Valley El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.5%, the actual is 56.4%, a residual of -9.1 points.
In the surrounding community, Berks County reports that median household income runs about $79,777, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Berks County runs 95 public schools (combined enrollment of about 62,375 students), of which Green Valley El Sch is one.
Nearest neighbor: Wilson West MS, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Green Valley El Sch. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Green Valley El Sch at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 57.3%.
Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Green Valley El Sch has shrank 6%, going from 535 students in 2018 to 505 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 12% to 19% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 today.
On this page, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.
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