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Enrollment
521
Elementary
DISTRICT 500 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·COUNCIL ROCK SD·NCES 420696000544
Maureen M Welch Elementary School
750 New Road, Churchville, PA 18966 · (215) 944-1800 · Bucks County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL521 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 47% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-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
13.1:1
40 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
18%
96 students
DISTRICT 16% · 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 | 46 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 69 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 69 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 93 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 69 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 79 | 15% |
| Grade 6 | 96 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (46) is 52% smaller than its 6th grade class (96).
Student demographics
28%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 33% · 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
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
60.3%
PA avg 51.1% . +4.5pp since 2023
Math
65.0%
PA avg 43.0% . +3.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 60 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 65 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are up about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 60.3% | 65.0% |
| 2023-24 | 55.8% | 61.7% |
% 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
63.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.7%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 63% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 70% 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 Maureen M Welch Elementary School
Maureen M Welch Elementary School's state test result (63.0% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maureen M Welch Elementary School this school | 521 | 18.4% | 63.0% |
| Hillcrest Elementary School Holland | 478 | 17.4% | 74.0% |
| Skippack Elementary School Collegeville | 557 | 18.0% | 76.6% |
| Culbertson Elementary School Newtown Square | 523 | 19.5% | 68.2% |
| Bon Meade Elementary School Moon township | 572 | 18.5% | 84.1% |
| Indian Lane Elementary School Media | 470 | 19.6% | 78.8% |
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 Maureen M Welch Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Bucks County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 63.0% | #492 of 1,396 | #45 of 71 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 65.0% | #394 of 1,511 ▲ 56 | #42 of 72 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 60.3% | #420 of 1,511 ▲ 331 | #36 of 72 ▲ 13 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 521 | #477 of 1,638 | #28 of 74 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.1:1 | #798 of 1,528 | #39 of 71 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 27.5% | #1,032 of 1,531 | #65 of 71 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 18.4% | #1,464 of 1,600 | #46 of 73 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -19.7% | #299 of 1,045 | #6 of 50 |
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
521
+15 (+3%) vs 2020
-22% since 2000-01, when it was 670
Student : Teacher
13.1:1
was 13.0:1
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 | 521 | 39.7 | 13.1:1 | 18% (96) |
| 2023-24 | 533 | 38.9 | 13.7:1 | 18% (96) |
| 2022-23 | 536 | 40.4 | 13.3:1 | 17% (89) |
| 2020-21 | 506 | 39 | 13.0:1 | 10% (50) |
| 2017-18 | 649 | 37.8 | 17.2:1 | 8% (53) |
| 2015-16 | 651 | 43 | 15.1:1 | 6% (38) |
| 2010-11 | 670 | 46 | 14.6:1 | 5% (33) |
| 2000-01 | 670 | 38 | 17.6:1 | 0% (0) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Maureen M Welch Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 20% (649 to 521); teachers up 5% (37.8 to 39.7).
About Maureen M Welch Elementary School
Maureen M Welch Elementary School runs as a mid-sized elementary school in Churchville, Pennsylvania. The school runs kindergarten through 6 and enrolls 521 students.
Council Rock SD counts 10,391 students in its 14 schools, and Maureen M Welch Elementary School is one of them.
Maureen M Welch Elementary School is 85% White by enrollment. Other reported shares: 8% Asian, 3% multiracial, and 3% Hispanic. That is in line with Bucks County, where about 81% of residents are White. The diversity index for Maureen M Welch Elementary School is 28%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The school has 39.7 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 13.1 students per teacher. The average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania is about 13.1:1. The school reported 18% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. It compares with 40% for public schools in Bucks County.
Among Pennsylvania public elementary schools, Maureen M Welch Elementary School outscored 47%, which works out to a B- on the allk12 Grade.
The model predicts 69.7% for a school in Pennsylvania with Maureen M Welch Elementary School's free or reduced-price lunch share. Maureen M Welch Elementary School posts 63.0%.
In the wider Bucks County area, the median household earns about $114,764 a year, about 45% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 4%. Maureen M Welch Elementary School shares Bucks County with 122 other public schools.
About 1.2 miles separate Maureen M Welch Elementary School from the closest public school, Davis Elementary School. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Maureen M Welch Elementary School is 4th of 9 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Suburb: Large.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment increased from 506 to 521, a 3% rise.
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Bucks County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
647,461
Census ACS
Median income
$114,764
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
45%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
123
81,956 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Council Rock SD
- Council Rock HS SouthHigh · 1,921 students
- Council Rock HS NorthHigh · 1,674 students
- Holland Middle SchoolMiddle · 960 students
- Newtown Middle SchoolMiddle · 833 students
- Goodnoe Elementary SchoolElementary · 668 students
- Sol Feinstone Elementary SchoolElementary · 644 students
Other schools in Churchville
- Churchville Elementary SchoolElementary · 558 students
Nearby schools
- Davis Elementary School1.2 mi · 785
- Klinger Middle School1.3 mi · 599
- Churchville Elementary School1.3 mi · 558
- McDonald Elementary School1.7 mi · 837
- Richboro Elementary School1.8 mi · 377
- William Tennent High School2.3 mi · 1,710
Frequently asked questions
About Maureen M Welch Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Maureen M Welch Elementary School?
Maureen M Welch Elementary School enrolls approximately 521 students in grades KG-06.
What age range does Maureen M Welch Elementary School serve?
Maureen M Welch Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 06.
How many students per teacher at Maureen M Welch Elementary School?
Approximately 13.1:1 students per teacher at Maureen M Welch Elementary School.
How diverse is Maureen M Welch Elementary School?
Maureen M Welch Elementary School reports a student body of 85% White, 3% Hispanic, 1% Black, 8% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is Maureen M Welch Elementary School in?
Maureen M Welch Elementary School is part of Council Rock SD.
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