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Enrollment
668
Elementary
DISTRICT 540 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DOWNINGTOWN AREA SD·NCES 420771006476
Lionville Elementary School
526 W Uwchlan Ave, Downingtown, PA 19335 · (610) 363-6580 · Chester County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL668 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 94% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-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
15.4:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.0:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
18%
120 students
DISTRICT 15% · 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 | 95 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 110 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 112 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 122 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 112 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 117 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (95) is 19% smaller than its 5th grade class (117).
Student demographics
47%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 53% · 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
Lionville Elementary School→Marsh Creek Sixth Grade Center
Based on grade levels within Downingtown Area SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
77.1%
PA avg 51.1% . -4.1pp since 2023
Math
81.4%
PA avg 43.0% . -2.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 77 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 81 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 77.1% | 81.4% |
| 2023-24 | 81.2% | 84.3% |
% 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
82.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.9%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+12.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 83% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 70% 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 Lionville Elementary School
Lionville Elementary School's state test result (82.8% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lionville Elementary School this school | 668 | 18.0% | 82.8% |
| Lower Gwynedd Elementary School Ambler | 630 | 19.5% | 77.7% |
| Goodnoe Elementary School Newtown | 668 | 15.6% | 84.1% |
| Butler Elementary School Chalfont | 757 | 13.1% | 70.9% |
| Manoa Elementary School Havertown | 706 | 23.4% | 79.3% |
| Beaver Creek Elementary School Downingtown | 531 | 16.9% | 75.7% |
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 Lionville Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Chester County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 82.8% | #70 of 1,396 | #12 of 54 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 81.4% | #92 of 1,511 ▼ 60 | #10 of 56 ▼ 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 77.1% | #99 of 1,511 ▲ 9 | #13 of 56 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 668 | #171 of 1,638 | #3 of 62 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.4:1 | #1,326 of 1,528 | #60 of 60 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 47.4% | #595 of 1,531 | #38 of 60 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 18.0% | #1,469 of 1,600 | #39 of 61 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -0.7% | #1,016 of 1,045 | #39 of 40 |
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
668
+39 (+6%) vs 2020
+36% since 1990-91, when it was 492
Student : Teacher
15.4:1
was 17.0:1
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 | 668 | 43.3 | 15.4:1 | 18% (120) |
| 2023-24 | 670 | 41.9 | 16.0:1 | 18% (120) |
| 2022-23 | 652 | 39.9 | 16.3:1 | 15% (95) |
| 2020-21 | 629 | 37 | 17.0:1 | 15% (92) |
| 2017-18 | 673 | 37.6 | 17.9:1 | 12% (81) |
| 2015-16 | 610 | 39 | 15.6:1 | 15% (91) |
| 2010-11 | 602 | 37 | 16.3:1 | 4% (24) |
| 2000-01 | 573 | 32 | 17.9:1 | 2% (14) |
| 1990-91 | 492 | 28 | 17.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Lionville Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 1% (673 to 668); teachers up 15% (37.6 to 43.3).
About Lionville Elementary School
Lionville Elementary School is a large elementary school in Pennsylvania, located in Downingtown. Students in kindergarten through 5 make up the school's enrollment of 668 students. By comparison, elementary schools in Pennsylvania enroll about 443 students on average.
Downingtown Area SD is the local district for Lionville Elementary School. It runs 16 schools with 13,047 students.
White students are 71% of those enrolled at Lionville Elementary School. Beyond that, enrollment is 14% Asian, 8% Hispanic, and 6% multiracial. A diversity index of 47% means there is a 47% chance two randomly chosen students at Lionville Elementary School are from different groups.
Staffing at Lionville Elementary School comes to 43.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15.4:1. Elementary schools in Pennsylvania average 13.1:1, 2.4 fewer students per teacher than here. Lionville Elementary School counts 18% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in Chester County average 38%.
Lionville Elementary School earns an A on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 94% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools.
Schools in Pennsylvania with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 69.9%. Lionville Elementary School scores 82.8%.
Looking at the county, Chester County, the median household earns about $127,208 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 57%, and about 4% of people live in poverty. Counting Lionville Elementary School, Chester County has 111 public schools.
The closest school to Lionville Elementary School is Downingtown HS East Campus, located about 0.2 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Lionville Elementary School. Its average proficiency rate of 82.8% is above the 67.1% average for nearby schools.
The NCES locale for Lionville 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.
By 2024-25, enrollment had risen to 668, from 629 in 2020-21. The school's ratio dropped from 17.0:1 to 15.4:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
The discussion board for Lionville Elementary School is open to topics like pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
Chester County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
547,840
Census ACS
Median income
$127,208
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
57%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
111
83,468 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Downingtown Area SD
- Downingtown HS West CampusHigh · 1,796 students
- Downingtown HS East CampusHigh · 1,708 students
- Downingtown Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,074 students
- Marsh Creek Sixth Grade CenterMiddle · 1,066 students
- Lionville Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,045 students
- Downingtown STEM AcademyHigh · 962 students
Other schools in Downingtown
- Downingtown HS West CampusHigh · 1,796 students
- Downingtown Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,074 students
- Marsh Creek Sixth Grade CenterMiddle · 1,066 students
- Downingtown STEM AcademyHigh · 962 students
- West Bradford Elementary SchoolElementary · 623 students
- East Ward Elementary SchoolElementary · 549 students
Nearby schools
- Downingtown HS East Campus0.2 mi · 1,708
- Lionville Middle School0.5 mi · 1,045
- Uwchlan Hills Elementary School1.0 mi · 537
- Insight PA Cyber CS1.1 mi · 3,385
- Achievement House CS1.4 mi · 927
- Collegium CS1.5 mi · 2,634
Frequently asked questions
About Lionville Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Lionville Elementary School?
Lionville Elementary School enrolls approximately 668 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Lionville Elementary School serve?
Lionville Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Lionville Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Lionville Elementary School is approximately 15.4:1 (43 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Lionville Elementary School?
Lionville Elementary School reports a student body of 71% White, 8% Hispanic, 2% Black, 14% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is Lionville Elementary School public or private?
Lionville Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Downingtown Area SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.