Penn's Grove School

Located at 301 South Fifth St, in Oxford, Pennsylvania, Penn's Grove School is a mid-tier junior high that educates 528 students (grades 7 through 8), run under Oxford Area SD.

Penn's Grove School is one of 6 schools operated by Oxford Area SD, a district that serves 3,129 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Penn's Grove School logs that the most-represented group is White (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school records 40% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Chester County as a whole is about 77% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Penn's Grove School lists 46 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.2:1, putting Penn's Grove School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 92% of students are eligible 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 above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Penn's Grove School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.2%, the actual is 46.0%, a residual of +7.8 points.

Across the wider county, Chester County reports that median household earnings sit near $127,208, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Penn's Grove School is one of 111 public schools in Chester County (combined enrollment of about 83,468 students).

Nearest neighbor: Jordan Bank School, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 7 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Penn's Grove School comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 53.9%.

The school occupies a town-center site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Penn's Grove School has fell 15%, going from 622 students in 2018 to 528 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 71% to 53%. Class-load math has fell: from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 in 2025.

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