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Enrollment
706
Elementary
DISTRICT 581 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·HAVERFORD TOWNSHIP SD·NCES 421167001875
Manoa Elementary School
201 S Manoa Rd, Havertown, PA 19083 · (610) 853-5900 · Delaware County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL706 STUDENTS
A
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 90% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- ATest 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
15.1:1
47 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.1:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
23%
165 students
DISTRICT 17% · 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 | 93 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 106 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 130 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 120 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 131 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 126 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (93) is 26% smaller than its 5th grade class (126).
Student demographics
46%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 39% · 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
Based on grade levels within Haverford Township SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
75.1%
PA avg 51.1% . -8.8pp since 2023
Math
74.9%
PA avg 43.0% . -0.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 75 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 75 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 have held steady.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 75.1% | 74.9% |
| 2023-24 | 83.9% | 75.7% |
% 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
79.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
67.6%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+11.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 79% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 68% 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 Manoa Elementary School
Manoa Elementary School's state test result (79.3% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manoa Elementary School this school | 706 | 23.4% | 79.3% |
| Lower Gwynedd Elementary School Ambler | 630 | 19.5% | 77.7% |
| Lionville Elementary School Downingtown | 668 | 18.0% | 82.8% |
| Lower Nazareth Elementary School Nazareth | 615 | 23.1% | 79.7% |
| Rydal Elementary School Huntingdon Valley | 569 | 26.7% | 76.4% |
| Jefferson Hills Intermediate School Jefferson Hills | 856 | 28.6% | 72.9% |
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 Manoa Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Delaware County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 79.3% | #120 of 1,396 | #12 of 59 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 74.9% | #190 of 1,511 ▼ 45 | #18 of 69 ▼ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 75.1% | #130 of 1,511 ▼ 67 | #13 of 69 ▼ 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 706 | #136 of 1,638 | #4 of 75 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.1:1 | #1,280 of 1,528 | #64 of 74 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 46.0% | #623 of 1,531 | #33 of 74 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 23.4% | #1,404 of 1,600 | #53 of 73 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +4.4% | #317 of 450 | #16 of 25 |
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
706
+10 (+1%) vs 2020
+28% since 1990-91, when it was 553
Student : Teacher
15.1:1
was 15.8:1
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 | 706 | 46.7 | 15.1:1 | 23% (165) |
| 2023-24 | 704 | 43.7 | 16.1:1 | 23% (165) |
| 2022-23 | 719 | 43.2 | 16.7:1 | 24% (172) |
| 2020-21 | 696 | 44 | 15.8:1 | 19% (132) |
| 2017-18 | 676 | 40.4 | 16.8:1 | 14% (93) |
| 2015-16 | 666 | 42 | 15.9:1 | 14% (94) |
| 2010-11 | 559 | 33 | 16.9:1 | 9% (48) |
| 2000-01 | 562 | 34 | 16.5:1 | 4% (21) |
| 1990-91 | 553 | 30 | 18.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Manoa Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 4% (676 to 706); teachers up 16% (40.4 to 46.7).
About Manoa Elementary School
In Havertown, Pennsylvania, part of Delaware County, Manoa Elementary School is an elementary school. Enrollment stands at 706 students, covering kindergarten through 5. That is 59% above the average of about 443 students for elementary schools in Pennsylvania.
Manoa Elementary School is one school in a 7-school district, Haverford Township SD, which enrolls 6,477 students.
The share of White students at Manoa Elementary School is 72%, a majority. After that, the student body is 12% Asian, 7% Black, 5% Hispanic, and 4% multiracial. Census figures show Delaware County is about 63% White. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 46, compared with 70 nationally.
Manoa Elementary School reports a ratio of 15.1 students per teacher, from 46.7 full-time-equivalent teachers. The gap from the 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania is 2.1 students per teacher. Student poverty is often measured by lunch eligibility; at Manoa Elementary School, 23% qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Among public schools in Delaware County, the average eligibility rate is 58%.
Among Pennsylvania public elementary schools, Manoa Elementary School outscored 90%, which works out to an A on the allk12 Grade.
Manoa Elementary School posts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 79.3%, compared with a predicted 67.6%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Pennsylvania schools on BeatsExpectations.
The school is in Delaware County, where median household income comes to about $89,546, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Delaware County counts 113 public schools with about 74,663 students.
Among nearby public schools, Lynnewood Elementary School is closest at about 1.0 miles. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. The school's 79.3% average proficiency ranks 3rd among 9 nearby schools.
Its location is classified as Suburb: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics.
Enrollment went from 696 in 2020-21 to 706 in 2024-25, a change of 10 students.
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Delaware County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
579,222
Census ACS
Median income
$89,546
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
113
74,663 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Haverford Township SD
- Haverford SHSHigh · 1,994 students
- Haverford Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,578 students
- Chatham Park Elementary SchoolElementary · 582 students
- Lynnewood Elementary SchoolElementary · 580 students
- Chestnutwold Elementary SchoolElementary · 566 students
- Coopertown Elementary SchoolElementary · 471 students
Other schools in Havertown
- Haverford SHSHigh · 1,994 students
- Haverford Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,578 students
- Chatham Park Elementary SchoolElementary · 582 students
- Lynnewood Elementary SchoolElementary · 580 students
Other Manoa Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Manoa Elementary. Manoa Elementary School is the largest of the 2.
- Manoa Elementary SchoolHonolulu, HI · 518 students
Nearby schools
- Lynnewood Elementary School1.0 mi · 580
- Aronimink Elementary School1.1 mi · 626
- Hillcrest Elementary School1.2 mi · 551
- Chatham Park Elementary School1.3 mi · 582
- Haverford Middle School1.3 mi · 1,578
- Loomis Elementary School1.4 mi · 376
Frequently asked questions
About Manoa Elementary SchoolHow large is Manoa Elementary School?
Manoa Elementary School enrolls approximately 706 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Manoa Elementary School serve?
Manoa Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Manoa Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Manoa Elementary School is approximately 15.1:1 (47 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Manoa Elementary School?
Manoa Elementary School reports a student body of 72% White, 5% Hispanic, 7% Black, 12% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is Manoa Elementary School in?
Manoa Elementary School is part of Haverford Township SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.