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Enrollment
576
Elementary
DISTRICT 490 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WEST CHESTER AREA SD·NCES 422529010012
Sarah W Starkweather Elementary School
1050 Wilmington Pike, West Chester, PA 19382 · (484) 266-2200 · Chester County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL576 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 64% 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
12.9:1
45 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.7:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
20%
115 students
DISTRICT 19% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 103 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 80 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 103 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 89 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 104 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 97 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (103) is 6% larger than its 5th grade class (97).
Student demographics
41%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 47% · 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
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
62.4%
PA avg 51.1% . -11.0pp since 2023
Math
69.2%
PA avg 43.0% . +8.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 62 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 69 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 up about 8 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 62.4% | 69.2% |
| 2023-24 | 73.4% | 60.9% |
% 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
69.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.0%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 70% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 69% 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 Sarah W Starkweather Elementary School
Sarah W Starkweather Elementary School's state test result (69.5% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sarah W Starkweather Elementary School this school | 576 | 20.0% | 69.5% |
| Westtown-Thornbury Elementary School West Chester | 529 | 15.7% | 74.5% |
| East Goshen Elementary School West Chester | 510 | 18.8% | 77.6% |
| Kenneth N Butz Jr Elementary School Nazareth | 576 | 22.6% | 71.9% |
| Chestnutwold Elementary School Ardmore | 566 | 15.2% | 77.9% |
| Springfield Twp Elementary School-Enfield Erdenheim | 550 | 20.7% | N/A |
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 Sarah W Starkweather Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Chester County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 69.5% | #299 of 1,396 | #32 of 54 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 69.2% | #290 of 1,511 ▲ 181 | #29 of 56 ▲ 13 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 62.4% | #368 of 1,511 ▼ 117 | #38 of 56 ▼ 10 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 576 | #312 of 1,638 | #7 of 62 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.9:1 | #742 of 1,528 | #37 of 60 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 40.9% | #744 of 1,531 | #49 of 60 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 20.0% | #1,438 of 1,600 | #36 of 61 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -0.3% | #1,038 of 1,045 | #40 of 40 |
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
576
+10 (+2%) vs 2020
-4% since 2000-01, when it was 602
Student : Teacher
12.9:1
was 13.5:1
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 | 576 | 44.5 | 12.9:1 | 20% (115) |
| 2023-24 | 575 | 43 | 13.4:1 | 20% (115) |
| 2022-23 | 578 | 41.9 | 13.8:1 | 18% (105) |
| 2020-21 | 566 | 42 | 13.5:1 | 17% (99) |
| 2017-18 | 578 | 38.1 | 15.2:1 | 14% (82) |
| 2015-16 | 580 | 37 | 15.7:1 | 13% (77) |
| 2010-11 | 615 | 38 | 16.2:1 | 7% (40) |
| 2000-01 | 602 | 30 | 20.1:1 | 8% (47) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Sarah W Starkweather Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students unchanged (578 to 576); teachers up 17% (38.1 to 44.5).
About Sarah W Starkweather Elementary School
Sarah W Starkweather Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school that serves part of West Chester, Pennsylvania. Students in kindergarten through 5 attend, and enrollment is 576 students. The school's enrollment is 30% bigger than the 443 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania.
Within West Chester Area SD, Sarah W Starkweather Elementary School is one of 17 schools. The district enrolls 11,987 students.
White students are the majority at Sarah W Starkweather Elementary School, with 76% of enrollment. Other groups include 10% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, and 6% Black. County-wide, about 77% of residents are White. Pick two students at random and there is a 41% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Federal data list 44.5 full-time-equivalent teachers at Sarah W Starkweather Elementary School in 2024-25, for a ratio of 12.9:1. For comparison, elementary schools in Pennsylvania average 13.1:1. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 20%. For comparison, public schools in Chester County average 38%.
Sarah W Starkweather Elementary School is graded B by allk12, scoring above 64% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Sarah W Starkweather Elementary School would score about 69.0%. It scores 69.5%, within a point of that figure.
In the county around the school, Chester County, the median household income is $127,208, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 4% of people live in poverty. There are 111 public schools in Chester County, enrolling about 83,468 students in all.
The nearest public school is Stetson Middle School, at about 0.2 miles. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. Nearby schools with test data average 68.3% proficiency; Sarah W Starkweather Elementary School posts 69.5%.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Suburb: Large.
The school's size has been steady, with 566 students in 2020-21 and 576 in 2024-25.
The Sarah W Starkweather Elementary School community page is open for posts about sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Chester County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
547,840
Census ACS
Median income
$127,208
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
57%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
111
83,468 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in West Chester Area SD
- West Chester Henderson High SchoolHigh · 1,444 students
- West Chester East High SchoolHigh · 1,216 students
- West Chester Bayard Rustin High SchoolHigh · 1,159 students
- E N Peirce Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,040 students
- J R Fugett Middle SchoolMiddle · 930 students
- Stetson Middle SchoolMiddle · 808 students
Other schools in West Chester
- Pennsylvania Leadership CSCombined · 2,874 students
- West Chester Henderson High SchoolHigh · 1,444 students
- West Chester East High SchoolHigh · 1,216 students
- West Chester Bayard Rustin High SchoolHigh · 1,159 students
- E N Peirce Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,040 students
- 21st Century Cyber CSHigh · 996 students
Nearby schools
- Stetson Middle School0.2 mi · 808
- Westtown-Thornbury Elementary School1.8 mi · 529
- West Chester Bayard Rustin High School1.9 mi · 1,159
- Hillsdale Elementary School2.2 mi · 537
- West Chester Henderson High School2.6 mi · 1,444
- Glen Acres Elementary School2.8 mi · 451
Frequently asked questions
About Sarah W Starkweather Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Sarah W Starkweather Elementary School?
Sarah W Starkweather Elementary School enrolls approximately 576 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Sarah W Starkweather Elementary School serve?
Sarah W Starkweather Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at Sarah W Starkweather Elementary School?
Approximately 12.9:1 students per teacher at Sarah W Starkweather Elementary School.
How diverse is Sarah W Starkweather Elementary School?
Sarah W Starkweather Elementary School reports a student body of 76% White, 10% Hispanic, 6% Black, 1% Asian, 7% Two or more.
Who oversees Sarah W Starkweather Elementary School?
Sarah W Starkweather Elementary School is overseen by West Chester Area SD in Chester County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.