Lionville El Sch

Located at 526 W Uwchlan Ave, in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, Lionville El Sch is a substantial elementary-level community that works with 668 students (grades K through 5), operated by Downingtown Area SD. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Lionville El Sch sits 51% bigger than that benchmark.

Lionville El Sch is one of 16 schools operated by Downingtown Area SD, a district that works with 13,047 students overall.

On demographics, Lionville El Sch reports that the largest single group is White, at 71% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 14% Asian, 8% Hispanic, 6% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Lionville El Sch higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 18% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than Chester County's rate of about 38%.

With demographic context factored in, Lionville El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.9%, the actual is 82.8%, a residual of +12.8 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Chester County shows median household income runs about $127,208, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Chester County's 111 public schools (combined enrollment of about 83,468 students), Lionville El Sch is one campus in the mix.

Downingtown HS East Campus is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lionville El Sch. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Lionville El Sch at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 67.1%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 673 students in 2018 compared to 668 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share expanded from 9% to 14%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 in 2025.

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