Paxon Hollow MS

Paxon Hollow MS is a 6-8 campus of moderately sized scale in Broomall, Pennsylvania, part of Marple Newtown SD, educateing 868 students in grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 594 students per school, that is 46% larger than typical.

Within Marple Newtown SD, which oversees 6 schools and 3,882 students, Paxon Hollow MS is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Paxon Hollow MS lists that White students make up the majority at 77%. Other groups include 13% Asian, 4% multiracial, 3% Black, 3% Hispanic. By comparison, Delaware County as a whole is about 63% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 64 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 29% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Delaware County (around 58%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Paxon Hollow MS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.3%, the actual is 59.9%, a residual of -5.4 points.

In the broader community, Delaware County reports that median household income runs about $89,546, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Paxon Hollow MS is one of 113 public schools in Delaware County (combined enrollment of about 74,663 students).

Russell El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Paxon Hollow MS. On composite proficiency, Paxon Hollow MS comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 72.6%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Paxon Hollow MS's enrollment has ticked up 21% since 2018, when it stood at 716 (now 868). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 86% to 77% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 10.8:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 today.

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