Highland Park El Sch

Highland Park El Sch is one of the sizable primary schools in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, overseen by Upper Darby SD, with 737 students on its rolls from grades 1 through 5. That puts it 66% above the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 443 students.

Upper Darby SD comprises 13 schools with combined enrollment of 12,173 students; Highland Park El Sch is among them.

On the student-mix side, Highland Park El Sch records that the largest single group is Black at 30%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 29% Hispanic, 28% Asian, 7% multiracial, 5% White. By comparison, Delaware County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Highland Park El Sch has 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Highland Park El Sch higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 96% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Delaware County's rate of about 58%.

With demographic context factored in, Highland Park El Sch tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 36.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 33.4%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Delaware County indicate the typical household earns roughly $89,546 per year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Delaware County runs 113 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,663 students), of which Highland Park El Sch is one.

Upper Darby SHS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Highland Park El Sch at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 31.5%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 7%: 795 students in 2018 compared to 737 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment shrank from 47% to 30% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 in 2025.

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