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Which teacher or staff member at Indian Lane El Sch deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
470
Elementary
DISTRICT 496 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ROSE TREE MEDIA SD·NCES 422055000049
Indian Lane Elementary School
309 S Old Middletown Rd, Media, PA 19063 · (610) 627-7101 · Delaware County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL470 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 87% 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
13.1:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.9:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
20%
92 students
DISTRICT 16% · 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 | 77 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 81 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 72 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 78 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 91 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 71 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (77) is 8% larger than its 5th grade class (71).
Student demographics
35%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 40% · 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
Based on grade levels within Rose Tree Media SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
76.3%
PA avg 51.1% . -0.1pp since 2023
Math
79.5%
PA avg 43.0% . +4.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 76 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 80 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 76.3% | 79.5% |
| 2023-24 | 76.4% | 75.1% |
% 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
78.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.2%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 79% 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 Indian Lane Elementary School
Indian Lane Elementary School's state test result (78.8% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indian Lane Elementary School this school | 470 | 19.6% | 78.8% |
| Penn Wood Elementary School West Chester | 438 | 18.7% | 70.7% |
| Lincoln Elementary School Pittsburgh | 414 | 20.5% | 81.3% |
| Salford Hills Elementary School Harleysville | 449 | 16.0% | 78.2% |
| Media Elementary School Media | 488 | 15.0% | 80.2% |
| Park Forest Elementary School State College | 419 | 18.6% | 75.3% |
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 Indian Lane Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Delaware County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 78.8% | #129 of 1,396 | #14 of 59 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 79.5% | #119 of 1,511 ▲ 36 | #12 of 69 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 76.3% | #107 of 1,511 ▲ 79 | #11 of 69 ▲ 8 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 470 | #623 of 1,638 | #38 of 75 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.1:1 | #794 of 1,528 | #41 of 74 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 35.2% | #881 of 1,531 | #59 of 74 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 19.6% | #1,441 of 1,600 | #55 of 73 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +2.8% | #361 of 450 | #19 of 25 |
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
470
-8 (-2%) vs 2020
-11% since 2000-01, when it was 530
Student : Teacher
13.1:1
was 13.7:1
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 | 470 | 35.8 | 13.1:1 | 20% (92) |
| 2023-24 | 451 | 34.4 | 13.1:1 | 20% (92) |
| 2022-23 | 458 | 35.2 | 13.0:1 | 16% (73) |
| 2020-21 | 478 | 35 | 13.7:1 | 12% (55) |
| 2017-18 | 457 | 34.3 | 13.3:1 | 13% (59) |
| 2015-16 | 447 | 35 | 12.8:1 | 13% (56) |
| 2010-11 | 414 | 31 | 13.3:1 | 7% (27) |
| 2000-01 | 530 | 35 | 15.1:1 | 2% (12) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Indian Lane Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 3% (457 to 470); teachers up 4% (34.3 to 35.8).
About Indian Lane Elementary School
Indian Lane Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school based in Media, Pennsylvania. It enrolls 470 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are kindergarten through 5.
Across its 6 schools, Rose Tree Media SD enrolls 4,250 students. Indian Lane Elementary School is one of those schools.
More than half of enrollment at Indian Lane Elementary School is White: 80%. Next come 8% multiracial, 6% Asian, 4% Hispanic, and 2% Black. The county population is about 63% White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Indian Lane Elementary School scores 35%.
Indian Lane Elementary School has a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.1:1, with 35.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. It is about the same as the 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 20% at Indian Lane Elementary School. The average for public schools in Delaware County is 58%.
Among Pennsylvania public elementary schools, Indian Lane Elementary School outscored 87%, which works out to an A on the allk12 Grade.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Indian Lane Elementary School is 9.5 points above the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 78.8% actual, 69.2% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Pennsylvania.
The school's county is Delaware County. According to Census Bureau estimates, median household income comes to about $89,546, roughly 42% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 7%. The county's public schools total 113, with about 74,663 students.
Media Elementary School sits about 1.4 miles from Indian Lane Elementary School. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 75.4%, lower than Indian Lane Elementary School's 78.8%.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Large: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment held near 470, starting from 478.
Indian Lane Elementary School has a community page on allk12 for topics such as athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
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 Rose Tree Media SD
- Penncrest High SchoolHigh · 1,255 students
- Springton Lake Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,012 students
- Glenwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 586 students
- Media Elementary SchoolElementary · 488 students
- Rose Tree Elementary SchoolElementary · 439 students
Other schools in Media
- Penncrest High SchoolHigh · 1,255 students
- Springton Lake Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,012 students
- Glenwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 586 students
- Media Elementary SchoolElementary · 488 students
- Rose Tree Elementary SchoolElementary · 439 students
Nearby schools
- Media Elementary School1.4 mi · 488
- Wallingford Elementary School1.8 mi · 609
- Glenwood Elementary School1.9 mi · 586
- Penncrest High School1.9 mi · 1,255
- Strath Haven High School1.9 mi · 1,175
- Strath Haven Middle School2.0 mi · 868
Frequently asked questions
About Indian Lane Elementary SchoolHow large is Indian Lane Elementary School?
Indian Lane Elementary School enrolls approximately 470 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Indian Lane Elementary School serve?
Indian Lane Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Indian Lane Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Indian Lane Elementary School is approximately 13.1:1 (36 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Indian Lane Elementary School?
Indian Lane Elementary School reports a student body of 80% White, 4% Hispanic, 2% Black, 6% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Is Indian Lane Elementary School public or private?
Indian Lane Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Rose Tree Media SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.