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Enrollment
390
Elementary
DISTRICT 429 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PENNSBURY SD·NCES 421884001106
Oxford Valley Elementary School
430 Trenton Rd, Fairless Hills, PA 19030 · (215) 949-6808 · Bucks County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL390 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 59% 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.
- B-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
11.2:1
35 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.4:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
46%
179 students
DISTRICT 34% · 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 | 49 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 63 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 70 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 69 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 71 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 68 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (49) is 28% smaller than its 5th grade class (68).
Student demographics
50%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 46% · 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
51.3%
PA avg 51.1% . -18.1pp since 2023
Math
58.5%
PA avg 43.0% . +3.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 51 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 59 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 18 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 51.3% | 58.5% |
| 2023-24 | 69.4% | 55.2% |
% 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
62.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.9%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 62% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 58% 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 Oxford Valley Elementary School
Oxford Valley Elementary School's state test result (62.4% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oxford Valley Elementary School this school | 390 | 45.9% | 62.4% |
| Schweitzer Elementary School Levittown | 407 | 43.5% | 63.5% |
| Middlesex Elementary School Carlisle | 419 | 44.9% | 51.2% |
| Brownstown Elementary School Brownstown | 392 | 42.1% | 69.0% |
| Kindergarten Academy Mechanicsburg | 321 | 44.2% | N/A |
| Eshleman Elementary School Millersville | 337 | 46.6% | 73.1% |
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 Oxford Valley Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Bucks County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 62.4% | #512 of 1,396 | #46 of 71 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 58.5% | #569 of 1,511 ▲ 40 | #48 of 72 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 51.3% | #701 of 1,511 ▼ 340 | #49 of 72 ▼ 16 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 390 | #924 of 1,638 | #53 of 74 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.2:1 | #239 of 1,528 | #8 of 71 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 49.9% | #544 of 1,531 | #23 of 71 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 45.9% | #1,059 of 1,600 | #21 of 73 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.2% | #732 of 1,045 | #32 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
390
-2 (-1%) vs 2020
-32% since 1990-91, when it was 573
Student : Teacher
11.2:1
was 12.3:1
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 | 390 | 34.8 | 11.2:1 | 46% (179) |
| 2023-24 | 395 | 33.2 | 11.9:1 | 45% (179) |
| 2022-23 | 406 | 31.6 | 12.9:1 | 42% (172) |
| 2020-21 | 392 | 32 | 12.3:1 | 32% (126) |
| 2017-18 | 425 | 32.5 | 13.1:1 | 40% (172) |
| 2015-16 | 426 | 31 | 13.7:1 | 32% (135) |
| 2010-11 | 446 | 28 | 15.9:1 | 19% (85) |
| 2000-01 | 546 | 29 | 18.8:1 | 16% (87) |
| 1990-91 | 573 | 36 | 15.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Oxford Valley Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 8% (425 to 390); teachers up 7% (32.5 to 34.8).
About Oxford Valley Elementary School
Oxford Valley Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school in Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania, (ZIP code 19030). Students in kindergarten through 5 attend the school, which enrolls 390 students.
District-wide, Pennsbury SD has 14 schools and 9,435 students.
A majority of students at Oxford Valley Elementary School, 69%, are White. Beyond that, enrollment is 11% Hispanic, 8% Asian, 7% multiracial, and 5% Black. The White share of the county population is higher, at 81%. By the diversity index, Oxford Valley Elementary School comes in at 50%.
The teaching staff at Oxford Valley Elementary School is 34.8 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 11.2:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in Pennsylvania is 13.1:1, higher than at this school. About 46% of students, or 179, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Oxford Valley Elementary School is graded B by allk12, scoring above 59% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
The model predicts 57.9% for a school in Pennsylvania with Oxford Valley Elementary School's free or reduced-price lunch share. Oxford Valley Elementary School posts 62.4%.
Federal survey data for Bucks County show that median household income is about $114,764, about 45% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 4%. A total of 123 public schools operate in Bucks County, serving about 81,956 students.
Nearest public school: Pennsbury High School, about 0.8 miles away. The five-mile area around Oxford Valley Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools. Oxford Valley Elementary School's average proficiency of 62.4% compares with 52.2% for its nearest scored neighbors.
Locale: Suburb: Large. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The student count changed little between 2020-21 (392) and 2024-25 (390). The ratio of students to teachers went from 12.3:1 to 11.2:1 over the same years.
The discussion area below is open to posts about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Reviews and ratings from people who know the school are welcome.
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 Pennsbury SD
- Pennsbury High SchoolHigh · 2,847 students
- William Penn Middle SchoolMiddle · 904 students
- Pennwood Middle SchoolMiddle · 740 students
- Charles H Boehm Middle SchoolMiddle · 651 students
- Eleanor Roosevelt Elementary SchoolElementary · 583 students
- Edgewood Elementary SchoolElementary · 557 students
Other schools in Fairless Hills
- Pennsbury High SchoolHigh · 2,847 students
- Bucks County Technical High SchoolHigh · 1,415 students
- Neil A Armstrong Middle SchoolMiddle · 668 students
- Bucks County Montessori CSElementary · 180 students
- Village Park AcademyElementary
Nearby schools
- Pennsbury High School0.8 mi · 2,847
- Neil A Armstrong Middle School0.9 mi · 668
- Bucks County Technical High School1.3 mi · 1,415
- Manor Elementary School1.7 mi · 434
- Fallsington Elementary School1.9 mi · 256
- Sandburg Middle School2.0 mi · 729
Frequently asked questions
About Oxford Valley Elementary SchoolHow large is Oxford Valley Elementary School?
Oxford Valley Elementary School enrolls approximately 390 students in grades KG-05.
Is Oxford Valley Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Oxford Valley Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Oxford Valley Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Oxford Valley Elementary School is approximately 11.2:1 (35 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Oxford Valley Elementary School?
Oxford Valley Elementary School reports a student body of 69% White, 11% Hispanic, 5% Black, 8% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Is Oxford Valley Elementary School public or private?
Oxford Valley Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Pennsbury SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.