Newtown El Sch

Newtown El Sch is an elementary-level community of mid-tier scale in Newtown, Pennsylvania, operated by Council Rock SD, teacheing 557 students in grades K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 26% above typical.

Newtown El Sch is one of 14 schools operated by Council Rock SD, a district that works with 10,391 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Newtown El Sch lists that 69% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school logs 19% Asian, 7% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. By comparison, Bucks County as a whole is about 81% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.2:1. The state averages about 13.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 11% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is below Bucks County's rate of about 40%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Newtown El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 72.8%, the actual is 78.4%, a residual of +5.6 points.

In the area at large, census data for Bucks County shows the typical household earns roughly $114,764 per year, about 45% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Bucks County runs 123 public schools (combined enrollment of about 81,956 students), of which Newtown El Sch is one.

Nearest neighbor: Council Rock HS North, around 1.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Newtown El Sch at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 76.1%.

Newtown El Sch operates from an outer-ring location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Newtown El Sch has shrank 29%, going from 782 students in 2018 to 557 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 77% to 69% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 today.

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