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What's the most underrated thing about Hopewell El Sch that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
426
Elementary
DISTRICT 436 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SOUTHERN LEHIGH SD·NCES 422235005240
Hopewell Elementary School
4625 W Hopewell Rd, Center Valley, PA 18034 · (610) 791-0200 · Lehigh County
GRADES KG–03ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL426 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 76% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-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
15.2:1
28 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.8:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
14%
59 students
DISTRICT 17% · 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 | 87 | 20% |
| Grade 1 | 87 | 20% |
| Grade 2 | 114 | 27% |
| Grade 3 | 138 | 32% |
Student demographics
33%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 36% · 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
Students here typically continue to
Hopewell Elementary School→Southern Lehigh Intermediate School→Southern Lehigh Middle School→Southern Lehigh SHS
Based on grade levels within Southern Lehigh SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
71.2%
PA avg 51.1% . +2.1pp since 2023
Math
83.6%
PA avg 43.0% . +5.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 71 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 84 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 5 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 71.2% | 83.6% |
| 2023-24 | 69.1% | 78.4% |
% 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
75.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
71.7%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 76% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 72% 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 Hopewell Elementary School
Hopewell Elementary School's state test result (75.6% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hopewell Elementary School this school | 426 | 13.8% | 75.6% |
| Doyle Elementary School Doylestown | 409 | 15.9% | 78.3% |
| Avonworth Primary Center Pittsburgh | 423 | 16.8% | N/A |
| Buckingham Elementary School Buckingham | 442 | 11.5% | 76.7% |
| East Bradford Elementary School West Chester | 455 | 17.4% | 75.4% |
| Whitemarsh Elementary School Lafayette Hill | 511 | 12.7% | 82.5% |
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 Hopewell Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Lehigh County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 75.6% | #189 of 1,396 | #8 of 43 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 83.6% | #65 of 1,511 ▲ 41 | #3 of 45 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 71.2% | #195 of 1,511 ▲ 168 | #7 of 45 ▲ 9 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 426 | #775 of 1,638 | #34 of 50 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.2:1 | #1,298 of 1,528 | #37 of 48 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 32.6% | #939 of 1,531 | #45 of 48 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 13.8% | #1,521 of 1,600 | #46 of 48 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +8.1% | #219 of 450 | #12 of 23 |
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
426
+43 (+11%) vs 2020
-1% since 1990-91, when it was 431
Student : Teacher
15.2:1
was 17.4:1
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 | 426 | 28 | 15.2:1 | 14% (59) |
| 2023-24 | 411 | 26.5 | 15.5:1 | 14% (59) |
| 2022-23 | 432 | 27.5 | 15.7:1 | 10% (44) |
| 2020-21 | 383 | 22 | 17.4:1 | 14% (54) |
| 2017-18 | 394 | 26.4 | 14.9:1 | 11% (45) |
| 2015-16 | 285 | 14 | 20.4:1 | 10% (29) |
| 2010-11 | 308 | 21 | 14.7:1 | 12% (36) |
| 2000-01 | 434 | 28 | 15.5:1 | 6% (27) |
| 1990-91 | 431 | 25 | 17.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hopewell Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 8% (394 to 426); teachers up 6% (26.4 to 28).
About Hopewell Elementary School
A medium-sized elementary school in Center Valley, Pennsylvania, Hopewell Elementary School is part of Southern Lehigh SD. School enrollment was 426 students in 2024-25, in kindergarten through 3.
Southern Lehigh SD (5 schools, 3,057 students) runs Hopewell Elementary School.
About 81% of the student body at Hopewell Elementary School is White. The rest of enrollment is 8% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, 3% Asian, and 2% Black. Census estimates put the White share of Lehigh County's population at about 62%. The school's diversity index is 33%, meaning two students picked at random have a 33% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Teacher staffing is 28 full-time equivalents, or about 15.2 students per teacher. On average, elementary schools in Pennsylvania have 13.1:1, compared with 15.2:1 here. About 14% of students, or 59, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. It compares with 70% for public schools in Lehigh County.
Hopewell Elementary School is graded A- by allk12, scoring above 76% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Hopewell Elementary School falls in the middle 80% of Pennsylvania schools: 75.6% actual against 71.7% predicted.
Lehigh County census figures show that the median household income is $80,079, about 34% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 8% of residents are in poverty. Lehigh County is home to 83 public schools and about 56,984 public school students.
Southern Lehigh Middle School is the public school closest to Hopewell Elementary School, about 1.3 miles away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Nearby schools average 58.5% on proficiency, and Hopewell Elementary School is above that at 75.6%.
Its location is classified as Suburb: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics.
2024-25 enrollment was 426, an 11% gain from 383 in 2020-21. By 2024-25, the school had 15.2 students per teacher, compared with 17.4 in 2020-21.
Community posts for Hopewell Elementary School can cover school safety, transportation, and start times. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
Lehigh County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
378,792
Census ACS
Median income
$80,079
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
34%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
83
56,984 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Southern Lehigh SD
- Southern Lehigh SHSHigh · 1,013 students
- Southern Lehigh Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 702 students
- Southern Lehigh Middle SchoolMiddle · 471 students
- Liberty Bell Elementary SchoolElementary · 445 students
Other schools in Center Valley
- Southern Lehigh SHSHigh · 1,013 students
- Southern Lehigh Middle SchoolMiddle · 471 students
Other Hopewell Elementary schools
9 other US public schools in 8 states are named Hopewell Elementary. Hopewell Elementary School is the 7th largest of the 10.
- Hopewell Elementary SchoolOxford, PA · 489 students
- Hopewell Elementary SchoolAliquippa, PA · 323 students
- Hopewell Elementary SchoolTrinity, NC · 679 students
- Hopewell ElementaryBettendorf, IA · 658 students
- Hopewell ElementaryDublin, OH · 536 students
Nearby schools
- Southern Lehigh Middle School1.3 mi · 471
- Southern Lehigh SHS1.4 mi · 1,013
- Southern Lehigh Intermediate School1.4 mi · 702
- Liberty Bell Elementary School2.2 mi · 445
- Seven Generations CS3.1 mi · 497
- South Mountain Middle School3.3 mi · 972
Frequently asked questions
About Hopewell Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Hopewell Elementary School?
Hopewell Elementary School enrolls approximately 426 students in grades KG-03.
What grades does Hopewell Elementary School serve?
Hopewell Elementary School serves grades KG-03.
How many students per teacher at Hopewell Elementary School?
Approximately 15.2:1 students per teacher at Hopewell Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Hopewell Elementary School?
At Hopewell Elementary School, the student body is approximately 81% White, 5% Hispanic, 2% Black, 3% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Is Hopewell Elementary School public or private?
Hopewell Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Southern Lehigh SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.