1
Enrollment
641
Elementary
DISTRICT 630 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SPRINGFIELD SD·NCES 422260006518
Sabold Elementary School
468 E Thomson Ave, Springfield, PA 19064 · (610) 938-6500 · Delaware County
GRADES 02–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL641 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 98% 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.
- ABeats 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
14.7:1
44 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.5:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
31%
196 students
DISTRICT 22% · STATE 75%
Community
1
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 2 | 142 | 22% |
| Grade 3 | 173 | 27% |
| Grade 4 | 173 | 27% |
| Grade 5 | 153 | 24% |
Student demographics
45%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 41% · 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 Springfield SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
79.8%
PA avg 51.1% . -2.2pp since 2023
Math
83.7%
PA avg 43.0% . +2.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 80 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 84 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 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 79.8% | 83.7% |
| 2023-24 | 82.0% | 81.3% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of PA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
83.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
64.5%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+19.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 84% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 65% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 19 points, placing it in Pennsylvania's top 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 Sabold Elementary School
Sabold Elementary School's state test result (83.6% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sabold Elementary School this school | 641 | 30.6% | 83.6% |
| Eleanor Roosevelt Elementary School Morrisville | 583 | 25.4% | 65.8% |
| Sporting Hill Elementary School Mechanicsburg | 580 | 34.0% | 60.3% |
| Asbury Elementary School Fairview | 572 | 36.5% | 67.9% |
| McKinley School Elkins Park | 596 | 34.9% | 65.5% |
| Plymouth Elementary School Plymouth Meeting | 612 | 28.4% | 73.4% |
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 Sabold Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Delaware County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 83.6% | #58 of 1,396 | #6 of 59 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 83.7% | #64 of 1,511 ▲ 1 | #6 of 69 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 79.8% | #68 of 1,511 ▲ 29 | #8 of 69 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 641 | #193 of 1,638 | #8 of 75 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.7:1 | #1,210 of 1,528 | #62 of 74 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 44.9% | #655 of 1,531 | #37 of 74 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 30.6% | #1,320 of 1,600 | #50 of 73 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +2.6% | #369 of 450 | #20 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
641
-49 (-7%) vs 2020
+18% since 1990-91, when it was 544
Student : Teacher
14.7:1
was 16.4:1
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 | 641 | 43.6 | 14.7:1 | 31% (196) |
| 2023-24 | 668 | 44.7 | 15.0:1 | 29% (196) |
| 2022-23 | 653 | 44.7 | 14.6:1 | 29% (187) |
| 2020-21 | 690 | 42 | 16.4:1 | 28% (196) |
| 2017-18 | 625 | 44.5 | 14.0:1 | 27% (168) |
| 2015-16 | 643 | 40 | 16.1:1 | 18% (117) |
| 2010-11 | 527 | 34 | 15.5:1 | 16% (85) |
| 2000-01 | 488 | 30 | 16.3:1 | 7% (35) |
| 1990-91 | 544 | 31 | 17.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Sabold Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 3% (625 to 641); teachers down 2% (44.5 to 43.6).
About Sabold Elementary School
In Springfield, Pennsylvania, part of Delaware County, Sabold Elementary School is an elementary school. The grade span is 2 through 5, and enrollment is 641 students. Average enrollment for elementary schools in Pennsylvania is about 443, so this school runs 45% bigger than that.
Springfield SD, which runs Sabold Elementary School, has 5 schools and 4,405 students.
Roughly 73% of students at Sabold Elementary School are White. Other reported shares: 9% Black, 8% Asian, 5% multiracial, and 4% Hispanic. Delaware County's residents are about 63% White, 10 points below the school's share. Pick two students at random and there is a 45% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Staffing totals 43.6 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 14.7:1. That is 1.6 students per teacher above the 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania. Around 31% of the school's students qualify for free or reduced-price meals. That is lower than the 58% average for public schools in Delaware County.
allk12 grades Sabold Elementary School an A+. The grade compares the school only with Pennsylvania public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate on state tests with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. Sabold Elementary School beats its 64.5% prediction with 83.6%, a top-10% result in Pennsylvania.
Delaware County census figures show that the median household income is $89,546, roughly 42% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. There are 113 public schools in Delaware County, enrolling about 74,663 students in all.
Of nearby public schools, Richardson Middle School is the closest, at about 0.6 miles. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Sabold Elementary School. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Sabold Elementary School is 3rd of 8 on proficiency.
The NCES locale for Sabold Elementary School is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over 4 years, Sabold Elementary School's enrollment declined 7%, to 641. The school's ratio fell from 16.4:1 to 14.7:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
Conversations here can range across school safety, transportation, and start times. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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 Springfield SD
- Springfield High SchoolHigh · 1,434 students
- Richardson Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,081 students
- Scenic Hills Elementary SchoolElementary · 675 students
- Springfield Literacy CenterElementary · 574 students
Other schools in Springfield
- Springfield High SchoolHigh · 1,434 students
- Richardson Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,081 students
- Scenic Hills Elementary SchoolElementary · 675 students
- Springfield Literacy CenterElementary · 574 students
Nearby schools
- Richardson Middle School0.6 mi · 1,081
- Springfield Literacy Center0.7 mi · 574
- Swarthmore-Rutledge School0.9 mi · 560
- Springfield High School0.9 mi · 1,434
- Edgewood Elementary School1.5 mi · 347
- Amosland Elementary School1.7 mi · 470
Frequently asked questions
About Sabold Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Sabold Elementary School?
Sabold Elementary School enrolls approximately 641 students in grades 02-05.
What age range does Sabold Elementary School serve?
Sabold Elementary School serves students from grade 02 through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Sabold Elementary School?
Approximately 14.7:1 students per teacher at Sabold Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Sabold Elementary School?
Student demographics at Sabold Elementary School are roughly 73% White, 4% Hispanic, 9% Black, 8% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Sabold Elementary School public or private?
Sabold Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Springfield SD.
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