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Scenic Hills El Sch
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Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedWhat this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 84 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 85 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 84% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 70% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Scenic Hills El Sch
Scenic Hills El Sch, a large primary school in Springfield, Pennsylvania, operated by Springfield SD, educates 675 students, covering grades 2 through 5. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Scenic Hills El Sch sits 52% above that benchmark.
Springfield SD comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 4,405 students; Scenic Hills El Sch is among them.
In terms of who attends, Scenic Hills El Sch logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (83%); the rest is composed of 5% Asian, 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, 4% Black. By comparison, Delaware County as a whole is about 63% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.
On the resource side, The school lists 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. Roughly 17% of students at Scenic Hills El Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Delaware County (around 58%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Scenic Hills El Sch tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 70.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 84.0%.
In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Delaware County) logs that median household income runs about $89,546, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Delaware County runs 113 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,663 students), of which Scenic Hills El Sch is one.
Springfield HS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Scenic Hills El Sch ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 53.7%.
The school occupies a bedroom-community site.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Scenic Hills El Sch has grew 9%, going from 621 students in 2018 to 675 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 in 2025.
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