Linden El Sch

Linden El Sch is a modestly sized elementary-level community in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, operated by Central Bucks SD. The school caters to 353 students in grades K through 6. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Linden El Sch sits 20% smaller than that benchmark.

Linden El Sch is one of 23 schools operated by Central Bucks SD, a district that works with 16,879 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Linden El Sch records that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 7% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 5% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Bucks County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, Linden El Sch shows 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Linden El Sch tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 10% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Bucks County runs at roughly 40%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Linden El Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 73.2%; this one delivers 74.5%.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Bucks County indicate median household income runs about $114,764, 45% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Bucks County's 123 public schools (combined enrollment of about 81,956 students), Linden El Sch is one campus in the mix.

Central Bucks HS-West is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Linden El Sch comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 73.7%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 17%: 425 students in 2018 compared to 353 in 2025.

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