Rainbow El Sch

Rainbow El Sch is a primary school of roomy scale in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Coatesville Area SD, caters to 684 students in grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 54% bigger than typical.

Coatesville Area SD comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 5,142 students; Rainbow El Sch is among them.

Demographically, Rainbow El Sch logs that 37% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 27% Black, 26% Hispanic, 9% 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, The school currently runs with 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.3:1. The state averages about 13.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 101% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Chester County (around 38%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Rainbow El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.5%, the actual is 31.7%, a residual of -2.8 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Chester County put median household income runs about $127,208, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Rainbow El Sch is one of 111 public schools in Chester County (combined enrollment of about 83,468 students).

Nearest neighbor: Kings Highway El Sch, around 2.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 7 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Rainbow El Sch comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 30.7%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 7%: 735 students in 2018 compared to 684 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 in 2025.

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