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Enrollment
763
Elementary
DISTRICT 544 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CENTRAL BUCKS SD·NCES 420531000539
Groveland Elementary School
1100 North Easton Road, Doylestown, PA 18902 · (267) 893-4600 · Bucks County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY41-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL763 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 47% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- B+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
11.8:1
65 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.6:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
20%
156 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 | 78 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 109 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 106 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 123 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 119 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 116 | 15% |
| Grade 6 | 112 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (78) is 30% smaller than its 6th grade class (112).
Student demographics
46%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
64.0%
PA avg 51.1% . -3.1pp since 2023
Math
57.6%
PA avg 43.0% . +5.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 64 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 58 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 64.0% | 57.6% |
| 2023-24 | 67.1% | 52.6% |
% 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
63.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
68.8%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 63% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% 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 Groveland Elementary School
Groveland Elementary School's state test result (63.2% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Groveland Elementary School this school | 763 | 20.4% | 63.2% |
| Haine Elementary School Cranberry Twp | 791 | 25.8% | 69.3% |
| Colonial Elementary School Plymouth Meeting | 857 | 22.9% | 79.5% |
| Willow Lane Elementary School Macungie | 593 | 27.2% | 68.0% |
| Shoemaker Elementary School Macungie | 537 | 24.4% | 72.8% |
| Bradford Hgts Elementary School Downingtown | 534 | 24.2% | 72.5% |
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 Groveland Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Bucks County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 63.2% | #486 of 1,396 | #44 of 71 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 57.6% | #594 of 1,511 ▲ 83 | #50 of 72 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 64.0% | #324 of 1,511 ▲ 84 | #30 of 72 ▲ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 763 | #90 of 1,638 | #7 of 74 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.8:1 | #386 of 1,528 | #13 of 71 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 46.2% | #622 of 1,531 | #28 of 71 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 20.4% | #1,434 of 1,600 | #41 of 73 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.7% | #531 of 1,045 | #20 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
763
-76 (-9%) vs 2020
-19% since 2000-01, when it was 945
Student : Teacher
11.8:1
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 | 763 | 64.6 | 11.8:1 | 20% (156) |
| 2023-24 | 794 | 59.5 | 13.3:1 | 20% (156) |
| 2022-23 | 811 | 56.8 | 14.3:1 | 21% (172) |
| 2020-21 | 839 | 62 | 13.5:1 | 18% (148) |
| 2017-18 | 874 | 58.6 | 14.9:1 | 18% (160) |
| 2015-16 | 859 | 56 | 15.3:1 | 15% (128) |
| 2010-11 | 1,015 | 58 | 17.5:1 | 11% (111) |
| 2000-01 | 945 | 45 | 21.0:1 | 0% (0) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Groveland Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 13% (874 to 763); teachers up 10% (58.6 to 64.6).
About Groveland Elementary School
At 1100 North Easton Road in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, Groveland Elementary School operates as a high-enrollment elementary school. The latest federal count shows 763 students in kindergarten through 6. Against the 443-student average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania, enrollment here is 72% higher.
Groveland Elementary School sits within Central Bucks SD, which has 23 schools and 16,879 students.
At Groveland Elementary School, White students make up 71% of the student body. The remaining shares are 16% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, and 5% Asian. Bucks County as a whole is about 81% White, so the school's share is lower. Groveland Elementary School's diversity index is 46%, against a US figure of 70%.
Dividing enrollment by its 64.6 full-time-equivalent teachers gives a ratio of about 11.8:1. That is 1.3 students per teacher below the 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania. Groveland Elementary School reports 20% of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals. On average, public schools in Bucks County report 40%.
Groveland Elementary School is graded B- by allk12, scoring above 47% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Compared with Pennsylvania schools that have similar shares of low-income students, Groveland Elementary School's results are 5.6 points below predicted: 63.2% against 68.8%.
Across Bucks County, the median household income is $114,764, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 45%, and about 4% of people live in poverty. In all, Bucks County has 123 public schools and roughly 81,956 students.
Tohickon Middle School is the closest public school, about 0.6 miles away in a straight line. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Groveland Elementary School. By average proficiency, Groveland Elementary School is 8th among 9 schools close by.
Its NCES locale code is Rural: Fringe: the school is in rural territory close to an urban area.
Enrollment has fallen by 76 students since 2020-21, to 763. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio fell from 13.5:1 to 11.8:1.
Threads on this page can be about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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
- Cold Spring Elementary SchoolElementary · 470 students
Other Groveland Elementary schools
3 other US public schools in 4 states are named Groveland Elementary. Groveland Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 4.
- GROVELAND ELEMENTARYMINNETONKA, MN · 903 students
- GROVELAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOLGROVELAND, FL · 683 students
- GROVELAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOLBLACKFOOT, ID · 220 students
Nearby schools
- Tohickon Middle School0.6 mi · 857
- Gayman Elementary School0.8 mi · 390
- Cold Spring Elementary School2.7 mi · 470
- Linden Elementary School3.3 mi · 353
- Doyle Elementary School3.4 mi · 409
- Lenape Middle School3.7 mi · 779
Frequently asked questions
About Groveland Elementary SchoolHow large is Groveland Elementary School?
Groveland Elementary School enrolls approximately 763 students in grades KG-06.
What age range does Groveland Elementary School serve?
Groveland Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Groveland Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Groveland Elementary School is approximately 11.8:1 (65 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Groveland Elementary School?
Groveland Elementary School reports a student body of 71% White, 16% Hispanic, 2% Black, 5% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees Groveland Elementary School?
Groveland Elementary School is overseen by Central Bucks SD in Bucks County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.