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Seylar El Sch
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Seylar El Sch
Located at 820 Callowhill Rd, in Perkasie, Pennsylvania, Seylar El Sch is a mid-tier K-5 school that works with 382 students (grades K through 5), overseen by Pennridge SD.
Pennridge SD runs 11 schools in total, collectively educating 5,968 students. Seylar El Sch is one of those campuses.
On the student-mix side, Seylar El Sch lists that 80% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder breaks down as 11% Hispanic, 4% Asian, 4% multiracial. Compared to Bucks County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Seylar El Sch has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.2:1. The state averages about 13.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 17% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Bucks County runs at roughly 40%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.
After controlling for student poverty, Seylar El Sch tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 70.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 68.3%.
Around the school, ACS estimates for Bucks County put the typical household earns roughly $114,764 per year, about 45% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Bucks County's 123 public schools (combined enrollment of about 81,956 students), Seylar El Sch is one campus in the mix.
Pennridge Central MS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Seylar El Sch comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 62.2%.
The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 13%: 439 students in 2018 compared to 382 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 4% to 11% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 today.
Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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