Marsh Creek Sixth Grade Center

Marsh Creek Sixth Grade Center is a middle school of high-enrollment scale in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, overseen by Downingtown Area SD, serveing 1,066 students in grade 6. Compared to the state average of about 594 students per school, that is 79% above typical.

Downingtown Area SD comprises 16 schools with combined enrollment of 13,047 students; Marsh Creek Sixth Grade Center is among them.

On the student-mix side, Marsh Creek Sixth Grade Center reports that White students make up the majority at 63%; the rest comes out to 25% Asian, 6% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, 2% Black. By comparison, Chester County as a whole is about 77% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school reports having 80 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 15% of students at Marsh Creek Sixth Grade Center qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is below Chester County's rate of about 38%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Marsh Creek Sixth Grade Center tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 71.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 66.2%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Chester County put median household earnings sit near $127,208, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Chester County runs 111 public schools (combined enrollment of about 83,468 students), of which Marsh Creek Sixth Grade Center is one.

Shamona Creek El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Marsh Creek Sixth Grade Center ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 78.5%.

Marsh Creek Sixth Grade Center operates from a suburban location.

Looking at the recent track record. Marsh Creek Sixth Grade Center's enrollment has fell 3% since 2018, when it stood at 1,095 (now 1,066). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 76% to 63%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 today.

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