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Maureen M Welch El Sch
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedWhat 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.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Maureen M Welch El Sch
Maureen M Welch El Sch is a reasonably sized elementary campus in Churchville, Pennsylvania, overseen by Council Rock SD. The school educates 521 students in grades K through 6.
Across the 14 schools in Council Rock SD (10,391 students total), Maureen M Welch El Sch accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
In terms of who attends, Maureen M Welch El Sch lists that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 8% Asian, 3% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Bucks County as a whole.
In terms of school funding signals, Maureen M Welch El Sch records 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.1:1. The state averages about 13.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 18% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Bucks County runs at roughly 40%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Maureen M Welch El Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 69.7%; this one delivers 63.0%.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Bucks County) records that the typical household earns roughly $114,764 per year, about 45% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Maureen M Welch El Sch is one of 123 public schools in Bucks County (combined enrollment of about 81,956 students).
Davis El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Maureen M Welch El Sch. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Maureen M Welch El Sch ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 60.5%.
Maureen M Welch El Sch operates from a commuter-belt location.
Looking at the recent track record. Maureen M Welch El Sch's enrollment has decreased 20% since 2018, when it stood at 649 (now 521). Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 in 2025.
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