Nottingham School

Nottingham School is an elementary campus of mid-sized scale in Oxford, Pennsylvania, run under Oxford Area SD, serveing 429 students in grades 3 through 4.

Across the 6 schools in Oxford Area SD (3,129 students total), Nottingham School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Nottingham School shows that the most-represented group is White (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school shows 40% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 77% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Nottingham School shows 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Chester County runs at roughly 38%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Nottingham School ranks in the top 10% of Pennsylvania public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 34.8%; Nottingham School posts 51.6%, +16.8 points above that line.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Chester County indicate the typical household earns roughly $127,208 per year, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Across Chester County's 111 public schools (combined enrollment of about 83,468 students), Nottingham School is one campus in the mix.

Hopewell El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Nottingham School. On composite proficiency, Nottingham School comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 52.5%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 17%: 517 students in 2018 compared to 429 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 33% to 40% over that span.

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