Enrollment
400
Elementary
DISTRICT 437 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MARPLE NEWTOWN SD·NCES 421476001894
Russell Elementary School
2201 Sproul Rd, Broomall, PA 19008 · (610) 359-4310 · Delaware County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL400 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 62% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+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
10.3:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.0:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
28%
114 students
DISTRICT 26% · STATE 75%
Community
0
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 | 35 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 80 | 20% |
| Grade 2 | 69 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 82 | 21% |
| Grade 4 | 65 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 69 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (35) is 49% smaller than its 5th grade class (69).
Student demographics
40%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 37% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within Marple Newtown SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
58.1%
PA avg 51.1% . -11.4pp since 2023
Math
62.6%
PA avg 43.0% . -2.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 58 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 63 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 11 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 58.1% | 62.6% |
| 2023-24 | 69.5% | 65.5% |
% 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
67.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.4%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 67% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 65% 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 Russell Elementary School
Russell Elementary School's state test result (67.3% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Russell Elementary School this school | 400 | 28.5% | 67.3% |
| Gill Hall Elementary School Jefferson Hills | 424 | 28.3% | N/A |
| Loomis Elementary School Broomall | 376 | 31.4% | 68.7% |
| Worrall Elementary School Broomall | 449 | 22.7% | 74.1% |
| Nether Providence Elementary School Wallingford | 479 | 25.9% | 79.3% |
| Hershey Primary Elementary School Hershey | 427 | 29.0% | 78.0% |
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 Russell Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Delaware County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 67.3% | #374 of 1,396 | #24 of 59 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 62.6% | #461 of 1,511 ▼ 117 | #23 of 69 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 58.1% | #485 of 1,511 ▼ 131 | #23 of 69 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 400 | #882 of 1,638 | #48 of 75 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.3:1 | #119 of 1,528 | #11 of 74 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 39.8% | #767 of 1,531 | #45 of 74 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 28.5% | #1,347 of 1,600 | #51 of 73 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +7.5% | #238 of 450 | #11 of 25 |
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
400
+76 (+23%) vs 2020
-8% since 1990-91, when it was 436
Student : Teacher
10.3:1
was 11.2:1
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 | 400 | 38.8 | 10.3:1 | 28% (114) |
| 2023-24 | 374 | 36.6 | 10.2:1 | 30% (114) |
| 2022-23 | 363 | 37.6 | 9.7:1 | 29% (106) |
| 2020-21 | 324 | 29 | 11.2:1 | 20% (65) |
| 2017-18 | 372 | 30.6 | 12.2:1 | 17% (63) |
| 2015-16 | 362 | 31 | 11.7:1 | 10% (36) |
| 2010-11 | 355 | 30 | 11.8:1 | 7% (24) |
| 2000-01 | 370 | 32 | 11.6:1 | 4% (15) |
| 1990-91 | 436 | 23 | 19.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Russell Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 8% (372 to 400); teachers up 27% (30.6 to 38.8).
About Russell Elementary School
At 2201 Sproul Rd in Broomall, Pennsylvania, Russell Elementary School operates as a mid-sized elementary school. The school offers kindergarten through 5 and enrolls 400 students.
Marple Newtown SD has 6 schools and 3,882 students, and Russell Elementary School is one of those schools.
At Russell Elementary School, 76% of students are White. Smaller groups are 14% Asian, 7% multiracial, and 3% Hispanic. For comparison, the population of Delaware County is roughly 63% White. The diversity index for Russell Elementary School is 40%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
There are about 10.3 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at Russell Elementary School, which has 38.8. Elementary schools in Pennsylvania have an average ratio of 13.1:1. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch stands at 28%. That is lower than the 58% average for public schools in Delaware County.
Among Pennsylvania public elementary schools, Russell Elementary School outscored 62%, which works out to a B on the allk12 Grade.
Russell Elementary School scores 67.3% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 65.4%.
Census data for Delaware County show the median household earns about $89,546 a year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of people live in poverty. Counting Russell Elementary School, Delaware County has 113 public schools.
Among nearby public schools, Loomis Elementary School is closest at about 1.0 miles. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Russell Elementary School. Of the 9 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Russell Elementary School is 6th on average proficiency.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment increased by 23% across 4 years, from 324 in 2020-21 to 400 in 2024-25.
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Delaware County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
579,222
Census ACS
Median income
$89,546
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
113
74,663 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Marple Newtown SD
- Marple Newtown SHSHigh · 1,266 students
- Paxon Hollow Middle SchoolMiddle · 868 students
- Culbertson Elementary SchoolElementary · 523 students
- Worrall Elementary SchoolElementary · 449 students
- Loomis Elementary SchoolElementary · 376 students
Other schools in Broomall
- Paxon Hollow Middle SchoolMiddle · 868 students
- Worrall Elementary SchoolElementary · 449 students
- Loomis Elementary SchoolElementary · 376 students
Other Russell Elementary schools
8 other US public schools in 8 states are named Russell Elementary. Russell Elementary School is the 5th largest of the 9.
- Russell ElementaryLos Angeles, CA · 739 students
- Russell Elementary SchoolWarner Robins, GA · 576 students
- Russell Elementary SchoolSmyrna, GA · 568 students
- Russell Elementary SchoolBROWNSVILLE, TX · 418 students
- RUSSELL ELEM.HAZELWOOD, MO · 373 students
Nearby schools
- Loomis Elementary School1.0 mi · 376
- Paxon Hollow Middle School1.0 mi · 868
- Worrall Elementary School1.1 mi · 449
- Marple Newtown SHS1.5 mi · 1,266
- Manoa Elementary School2.2 mi · 706
- Lynnewood Elementary School2.2 mi · 580
Frequently asked questions
About Russell Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Russell Elementary School?
Russell Elementary School enrolls approximately 400 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Russell Elementary School serve?
Russell Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at Russell Elementary School?
Approximately 10.3:1 students per teacher at Russell Elementary School.
How diverse is Russell Elementary School?
Russell Elementary School reports a student body of 76% White, 3% Hispanic, 1% Black, 14% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is Russell Elementary School in?
Russell Elementary School is part of Marple Newtown SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.