New Hope-Solebury Upper El Sch

As an intimate elementary-level community in New Hope, Pennsylvania, New Hope-Solebury Upper El Sch instructs 277 students from grades 3 through 5, run under New Hope-Solebury SD. That puts it 37% leaner than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 443 students.

New Hope-Solebury Upper El Sch is one of 4 schools operated by New Hope-Solebury SD, a district that instructs 1,237 students overall.

On the student-mix side, New Hope-Solebury Upper El Sch logs that 73% of the student body identifies as White; the rest reads as 10% multiracial, 10% Hispanic, 6% Asian. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 81%.

Looking at school resources, New Hope-Solebury Upper El Sch logs 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting New Hope-Solebury Upper El Sch tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 14% of students at New Hope-Solebury Upper El Sch qualify 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 residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), New Hope-Solebury Upper El Sch tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 71.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 73.9%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Bucks County indicate median household earnings sit near $114,764, roughly 45% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Bucks County's 123 public schools (combined enrollment of about 81,956 students), New Hope-Solebury Upper El Sch is one campus in the mix.

New Hope-Solebury MS 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 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), New Hope-Solebury Upper El Sch ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 55.1%.

New Hope-Solebury Upper El Sch operates from a town-center location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at New Hope-Solebury Upper El Sch has decreased 11%, going from 310 students in 2018 to 277 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 82% to 73% across the same window.

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