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Enrollment
1,994
High
DISTRICT 925 · STATE 738
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HAVERFORD TOWNSHIP SD·NCES 421167001879
Haverford SHS
200 Mill Rd, Havertown, PA 19083 · (610) 853-5900 · Delaware County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL1,994 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 94% of Pennsylvania public high schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-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 high schools
Student : Teacher
16.4:1
122 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
21%
426 students
DISTRICT 17% · STATE 75%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 474 | 24% |
| Grade 10 | 535 | 27% |
| Grade 11 | 477 | 24% |
| Grade 12 | 508 | 25% |
Student demographics
37%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 39% · 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
School pathway
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Haverford Township SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
86.3%
PA avg 51.1% . +2.2pp since 2023
Math
72.4%
PA avg 43.0% . +1.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 86 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 72 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 86.3% | 72.4% |
| 2023-24 | 84.1% | 70.8% |
% 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
79.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
68.5%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+11.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 80% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 68% 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 Haverford SHS
Haverford SHS's state test result (79.6% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Haverford SHS this school | 1,994 | 21.4% | 79.6% |
| Owen J Roberts High School Pottstown | 1,810 | 21.9% | 64.5% |
| Mt Lebanon SHS Pittsburgh | 1,772 | 18.7% | 86.6% |
| Perkiomen Valley High School Collegeville | 1,616 | 22.1% | 72.3% |
| Downingtown HS West Campus Downingtown | 1,796 | 18.9% | 71.8% |
| State College Area High School State College | 2,402 | 21.5% | 83.3% |
Matched among Pennsylvania high 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 Haverford SHS ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Delaware County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 79.6% | #29 of 576 | #4 of 14 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 72.4% | #34 of 626 ▲ 3 | #4 of 16 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 86.3% | #31 of 626 ▲ 23 | #3 of 16 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,994 | #36 of 713 | #2 of 19 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.4:1 | #496 of 601 | #14 of 17 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 37.2% | #243 of 604 | #11 of 17 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 21.4% | #586 of 619 | #13 of 17 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +13.2% | #67 of 221 | #3 of 9 |
Ranked against other public high 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
1,994
+51 (+3%) vs 2020
+56% since 1990-91, when it was 1,277
Student : Teacher
16.4:1
was 16.6:1
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 | 1,994 | 121.8 | 16.4:1 | 21% (426) |
| 2023-24 | 2,020 | 121.8 | 16.6:1 | 21% (426) |
| 2022-23 | 2,005 | 112.9 | 17.8:1 | 21% (428) |
| 2020-21 | 1,943 | 117 | 16.6:1 | 17% (329) |
| 2017-18 | 1,761 | 120.9 | 14.6:1 | 14% (253) |
| 2015-16 | 1,709 | 118 | 14.5:1 | 14% (244) |
| 2010-11 | 1,782 | 116 | 15.4:1 | 10% (186) |
| 2000-01 | 1,730 | 95 | 18.2:1 | 2% (28) |
| 1990-91 | 1,277 | 92 | 13.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Haverford SHS.
Since 2017-18: students up 13% (1,761 to 1,994); teachers up 1% (120.9 to 121.8).
About Haverford SHS
Haverford SHS is a large high school in Havertown, Pennsylvania, one of the schools in Haverford Township SD. It had 1,994 students in 2024-25, spanning grades 9 through 12. High schools in Pennsylvania have about 738 students on average; enrollment here is 170% higher.
Haverford Township SD has 6,477 students in 7 schools, and Haverford SHS is one of those schools.
White students are 79% of those enrolled at Haverford SHS. Next come 6% Black, 6% Asian, 6% multiracial, and 3% Hispanic. That compares with about 63% White among all Delaware County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 37%.
Its staff includes 121.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, for about 16.4 students per teacher. Across high schools in Pennsylvania, the average ratio is 12.8:1. Haverford SHS has a free or reduced-price lunch rate of 21%. Compared with the 58% average for public schools in Delaware County, the school's rate is lower.
Haverford SHS holds an A allk12 Grade, placing it above 94% of Pennsylvania public high schools.
The BeatsExpectations prediction for Haverford SHS is 68.5%, and its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 79.6%.
Looking at the county, Delaware County, the median household earns about $89,546 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 42%, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. Delaware County has 113 public schools with about 74,663 students, including Haverford SHS.
Haverford Middle School is about 0.2 miles away, making it the nearest public school. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Haverford SHS ranks 3rd of 9 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 79.6% against a local average of 68.4%.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as Suburb: Large, meaning it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school grew from 1,943 students in 2020-21 to 1,994 in 2024-25.
This page is set up for the Haverford SHS community to discuss open houses, carpools, and field trips. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Delaware County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
579,222
Census ACS
Median income
$89,546
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
113
74,663 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Haverford Township SD
- Haverford Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,578 students
- Manoa Elementary SchoolElementary · 706 students
- Chatham Park Elementary SchoolElementary · 582 students
- Lynnewood Elementary SchoolElementary · 580 students
- Chestnutwold Elementary SchoolElementary · 566 students
- Coopertown Elementary SchoolElementary · 471 students
Other schools in Havertown
- Haverford Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,578 students
- Manoa Elementary SchoolElementary · 706 students
- Chatham Park Elementary SchoolElementary · 582 students
- Lynnewood Elementary SchoolElementary · 580 students
Nearby schools
- Haverford Middle School0.2 mi · 1,578
- Chatham Park Elementary School0.6 mi · 582
- Chestnutwold Elementary School0.9 mi · 566
- Lynnewood Elementary School1.1 mi · 580
- Penn Wynne School1.2 mi · 621
- Manoa Elementary School1.4 mi · 706
Frequently asked questions
About Haverford SHSHow many students attend Haverford SHS?
Haverford SHS enrolls approximately 1,994 students in grades 09-12.
Is Haverford SHS an elementary, middle, or high school?
Haverford SHS is a high school covering grades 09-12.
How many students per teacher at Haverford SHS?
Approximately 16.4:1 students per teacher at Haverford SHS.
How diverse is Haverford SHS?
Haverford SHS reports a student body of 79% White, 3% Hispanic, 6% Black, 6% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees Haverford SHS?
Haverford SHS is overseen by Haverford Township SD in Delaware County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.