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Manoa 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 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.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Manoa El Sch
As a substantial elementary campus in Havertown, Pennsylvania, Manoa El Sch teaches 706 students from grades K through 5, run under Haverford Township SD. Enrollment runs roughly 59% above the state mean of about 443.
Haverford Township SD runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 6,477 students. Manoa El Sch is one of those campuses.
On the student-mix side, Manoa El Sch records that White students make up the majority at 72%. Beyond that, the school records 12% Asian, 7% Black, 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Delaware County as a whole is about 63% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.
In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Manoa El Sch has 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. An estimated 23% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Delaware County runs at roughly 58%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Manoa El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 67.6%, the actual is 79.3%, a residual of +11.7 points.
In the broader community, census data for Delaware County shows median household income runs about $89,546, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Delaware County's 113 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,663 students), Manoa El Sch is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Lynnewood El Sch, around 1.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Manoa El Sch comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 60.7%.
Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.
Trend over the last 7 years. Manoa El Sch's enrollment has climbed 4% since 2018, when it stood at 676 (now 706). White enrollment moved from 84% to 72% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 15.1:1 today.
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