Enrollment
249
Elementary
DISTRICT 261 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICHESTER SD·NCES 420591001847
Linwood Elementary School
1403 Huddell Ave, Linwood, PA 19061 · (610) 485-6881 · Delaware County
GRADES KG–04ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL249 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 28% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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
8.6:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 8.9:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
79%
196 students
DISTRICT 68% · STATE 75%
Community
0
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 | 47 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 46 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 51 | 20% |
| Grade 3 | 43 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 62 | 25% |
This year's kindergarten class (47) is 24% smaller than its 4th grade class (62).
Student demographics
69%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 68% · 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 Chichester SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
37.5%
PA avg 51.1% . +1.1pp since 2023
Math
41.3%
PA avg 43.0% . +11.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 38 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 41 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 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 11 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 37.5% | 41.3% |
| 2023-24 | 36.4% | 30.0% |
% 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
41.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.9%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 41% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% 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 Linwood Elementary School
Linwood Elementary School's state test result (41.1% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linwood Elementary School this school | 249 | 78.7% | 41.1% |
| Woodlyn Elementary School Woodlyn | 320 | 76.3% | 43.7% |
| Letort Elementary School Carlisle | 225 | 67.6% | 44.2% |
| Marcus Hook Elementary School Marcus Hook | 237 | 91.1% | 39.9% |
| Eddystone Elementary School Eddystone | 226 | 87.6% | 43.0% |
| Pittsburgh Roosevelt K -5 Pittsburgh | 278 | 84.5% | 27.2% |
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 Linwood Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Delaware County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 41.1% | #1,053 of 1,396 | #41 of 59 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 41.3% | #983 of 1,511 ▲ 133 | #36 of 69 ▲ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 37.5% | #1,065 of 1,511 ▲ 106 | #43 of 69 ▲ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 249 | #1,417 of 1,638 | #68 of 75 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.6:1 | #14 of 1,528 | #3 of 74 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.0% | #117 of 1,531 | #12 of 74 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 78.7% | #702 of 1,600 | #31 of 73 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -20.4% | #272 of 1,045 | #12 of 45 |
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
249
-9 (-3%) vs 2020
-39% since 1990-91, when it was 408
Student : Teacher
8.6:1
was 9.2:1
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 | 249 | 29 | 8.6:1 | 79% (196) |
| 2023-24 | 243 | 27.5 | 8.8:1 | 81% (196) |
| 2022-23 | 255 | 25.5 | 10.0:1 | 99% (253) |
| 2020-21 | 258 | 28 | 9.2:1 | 80% (206) |
| 2017-18 | 313 | 30 | 10.4:1 | 100% (312) |
| 2015-16 | 285 | 26 | 11.0:1 | 52% (149) |
| 2010-11 | 299 | 27 | 11.1:1 | 68% (203) |
| 2000-01 | 343 | 27 | 12.7:1 | 39% (135) |
| 1990-91 | 408 | 25 | 16.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Linwood Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 20% (313 to 249); teachers down 3% (30 to 29).
About Linwood Elementary School
Linwood, Pennsylvania, is home to Linwood Elementary School, a low-enrollment elementary school. It enrolls 249 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are kindergarten through 4. It has 44% fewer students than the average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania (about 443).
Linwood Elementary School is part of a district of 6 schools: Chichester SD, with 2,899 students.
Of every 100 students at Linwood Elementary School, about 44 are White, the largest group. Smaller groups are 28% Black, 16% multiracial, and 12% Hispanic. For comparison, the population of Delaware County is roughly 63% White. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 69, compared with 70 nationally.
Teacher count: 29 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 8.6:1. The gap from the 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania is 4.5 students per teacher. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 79%. That is 21 points above the 58% average for public schools in Delaware County.
Linwood Elementary School earns a C on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 28% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools.
Linwood Elementary School's average proficiency rate across its state test results of 41.1% is 2.8 points below the 43.9% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
In Delaware County, where the school is located, median household income comes to about $89,546, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 42%, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. The county has 113 public schools and about 74,663 students.
A public school about 0.6 miles away, Marcus Hook Elementary School, is the closest to Linwood Elementary School. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. In a group of 9 nearby schools with scores, Linwood Elementary School ranks 6th on average proficiency.
The NCES locale for Linwood Elementary School is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's student count fell 3% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about fundraisers, report cards, and school supplies at Linwood Elementary School. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
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 Chichester SD
- Chichester SHSHigh · 981 students
- Chichester Middle SchoolMiddle · 873 students
- Hilltop Elementary SchoolElementary · 290 students
- Boothwyn Elementary SchoolElementary · 269 students
- Marcus Hook Elementary SchoolElementary · 237 students
Other Linwood Elementary schools
7 other US public schools in 7 states are named Linwood Elementary. Linwood Elementary School is the 6th largest of the 8.
- Linwood ElementaryVisalia, CA · 537 students
- Linwood ElementarySpokane, WA · 503 students
- Linwood ElementaryWichita, KS · 452 students
- Linwood ElementaryWYOMING, MN · 400 students
- Linwood Elementary SchoolMilwaukie, OR · 259 students
Nearby schools
- Marcus Hook Elementary School0.6 mi · 237
- Chichester Middle School0.8 mi · 873
- Boothwyn Elementary School1.0 mi · 269
- Chichester SHS1.3 mi · 981
- Chester Charter Scholars Academy CS1.6 mi · 701
- Hilltop Elementary School1.9 mi · 290
Frequently asked questions
About Linwood Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Linwood Elementary School?
Linwood Elementary School enrolls approximately 249 students in grades KG-04.
What grades does Linwood Elementary School serve?
Linwood Elementary School serves grades KG-04.
How many teachers does Linwood Elementary School have?
Linwood Elementary School employs 29 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 8.6:1.
How diverse is Linwood Elementary School?
Linwood Elementary School reports a student body of 44% White, 12% Hispanic, 28% Black, 16% Two or more.
Who oversees Linwood Elementary School?
Linwood Elementary School is overseen by Chichester SD in Delaware County.
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