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Lynnewood El Sch
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Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedWhat this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 72 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 78 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 9 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 11 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 76% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 71% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Lynnewood El Sch
Lynnewood El Sch is a K-5 school of reasonably sized scale in Havertown, Pennsylvania, part of Haverford Township SD, caters to 580 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Lynnewood El Sch sits 31% above that benchmark.
Lynnewood El Sch is one of 7 schools operated by Haverford Township SD, a district that caters to 6,477 students overall.
On the student-mix side, Lynnewood El Sch shows that White students make up the majority at 77%; the rest comes out to 11% Asian, 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 63% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.
On the resource side, On paper, Lynnewood El Sch has 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. About 16% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Delaware County's rate of about 58%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Lynnewood El Sch tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 70.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 75.8%.
Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Delaware County put median household earnings sit near $89,546, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Delaware County's 113 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,663 students), Lynnewood El Sch is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Haverford MS, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lynnewood El Sch. On composite proficiency, Lynnewood El Sch comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 73.7%.
The school occupies a commuter-belt site.
Over the past 7-year window. Lynnewood El Sch's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 566 (now 580). The Asian share of enrollment rose from 6% to 11% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 today.
On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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