Main Street Sch

Main Street Sch operates as a tight-knit K-5 school in Upland, Pennsylvania, overseen by Chester-Upland SD. Current enrollment sits at 340 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Main Street Sch sits 23% below that benchmark.

Chester-Upland SD runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 3,039 students. Main Street Sch is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Main Street Sch logs that the largest single group is Black, at 76% of enrollment. The remainder is composed of 11% Hispanic, 6% White, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 22% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school lists 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 89% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Delaware County runs at roughly 58%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Main Street Sch tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 39.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 23.9%.

Across the wider 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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Delaware County's 113 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,663 students), Main Street Sch is one campus in the mix.

Toby Farms Intermediate School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Main Street Sch ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 32.4%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Main Street Sch's enrollment has decreased 17% since 2018, when it stood at 408 (now 340). Over the same period, the Black share decreased from 88% to 76%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 today.

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