Parkside El Sch

Parkside El Sch is an intimate primary school in Parkside, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Penn-Delco SD. The school works with 252 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 43% smaller than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 443 students.

Across the 6 schools in Penn-Delco SD (3,181 students total), Parkside El Sch accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Parkside El Sch records that 57% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school lists 23% Black, 11% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 3% Asian.

Looking at school resources, Parkside El Sch logs 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Parkside El Sch tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 54% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Parkside El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 54.5%, the actual is 60.5%, a residual of +6.0 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Delaware County indicate median household earnings sit near $89,546, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Delaware County's 113 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,663 students), Parkside El Sch is one campus in the mix.

Coebourn El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Parkside El Sch comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 34.1%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 9%: 278 students in 2018 compared to 252 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 67% to 57%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 today.

Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.