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Kutz El Sch
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedWhat this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 82 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 73 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 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 78% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 74% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Kutz El Sch
Kutz El Sch is a primary school of mid-sized scale in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Central Bucks SD, works with 436 students in grades K through 6.
Central Bucks SD comprises 23 schools with combined enrollment of 16,879 students; Kutz El Sch is among them.
In terms of who attends, Kutz El Sch shows that nearly all students (86%) are White. The remainder breaks down as 4% Hispanic, 4% Asian, 4% multiracial.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Kutz El Sch records 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 8% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Bucks County's rate of about 40%.
After controlling for student poverty, Kutz El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 74.1%, the actual is 78.4%, a residual of +4.3 points.
Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Bucks County indicate median household income runs about $114,764, roughly 45% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Bucks County runs 123 public schools (combined enrollment of about 81,956 students), of which Kutz El Sch is one.
The closest other public school is Central Bucks HS-West, roughly 1.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Kutz El Sch ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 71.3%.
Kutz El Sch operates from a commuter-belt location.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 23%: 566 students in 2018 compared to 436 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 in 2025.
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