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Lynnewood El Sch
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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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