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Enrollment
488
Elementary
DISTRICT 540 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DOWNINGTOWN AREA SD·NCES 420771009948
Shamona Creek Elementary School
501 Dorlan Mill Rd, Downingtown, PA 19335 · (610) 458-8703 · Chester County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL488 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 91% 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.
- B+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
13.4:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.0:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
9%
42 students
DISTRICT 15% · 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 | 50 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 70 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 74 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 89 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 100 | 20% |
| Grade 5 | 105 | 22% |
This year's kindergarten class (50) is 52% smaller than its 5th grade class (105).
Student demographics
54%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 53% · 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
Shamona Creek Elementary School→Marsh Creek Sixth Grade Center
Based on grade levels within Downingtown Area SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
79.9%
PA avg 51.1% . -1.7pp since 2023
Math
86.3%
PA avg 43.0% . +3.9pp 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 86 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 4 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 79.9% | 86.3% |
| 2023-24 | 81.6% | 82.4% |
% 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
83.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
73.9%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 84% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 74% 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 Shamona Creek Elementary School
Shamona Creek Elementary School's state test result (83.9% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shamona Creek Elementary School this school | 488 | 8.6% | 83.9% |
| Uwchlan Hills Elementary School Downingtown | 537 | 10.2% | 82.9% |
| Hillside Elementary School Berwyn | 425 | 8.7% | 84.0% |
| Upper Providence Elementary School Royersford | 435 | 11.0% | 82.9% |
| General Wayne Elementary School Malvern | 542 | 17.3% | 75.6% |
| West Vincent Elementary School Chester Springs | 530 | 10.0% | 82.9% |
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 Shamona Creek Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Chester County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 83.9% | #53 of 1,396 | #8 of 54 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 86.3% | #41 of 1,511 ▲ 12 | #5 of 56 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 79.9% | #66 of 1,511 ▲ 38 | #9 of 56 ▲ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 488 | #559 of 1,638 | #28 of 62 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.4:1 | #894 of 1,528 | #48 of 60 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 54.1% | #464 of 1,531 | #27 of 60 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 8.6% | #1,577 of 1,600 | #57 of 61 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -21.8% | #248 of 1,045 | #10 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
488
-90 (-16%) vs 2020
-19% since 1990-91, when it was 606
Student : Teacher
13.4:1
was 14.4:1
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 | 488 | 36.3 | 13.4:1 | 9% (42) |
| 2023-24 | 515 | 36.2 | 14.2:1 | 8% (42) |
| 2022-23 | 543 | 37.2 | 14.6:1 | 6% (35) |
| 2020-21 | 578 | 40 | 14.4:1 | 4% (24) |
| 2017-18 | 624 | 39 | 16.0:1 | 3% (18) |
| 2015-16 | 598 | 37 | 16.2:1 | 3% (20) |
| 2010-11 | 517 | 35 | 14.8:1 | 3% (15) |
| 2000-01 | 612 | 34 | 18.0:1 | 0% (1) |
| 1990-91 | 606 | 29 | 20.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Shamona Creek Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 22% (624 to 488); teachers down 7% (39 to 36.3).
About Shamona Creek Elementary School
As a medium-sized elementary school, Shamona Creek Elementary School serves students in Downingtown, Pennsylvania. It serves 488 students in kindergarten through 5.
The 16 schools of Downingtown Area SD, including Shamona Creek Elementary School, enroll 13,047 students.
White students account for 61% of enrollment at Shamona Creek Elementary School. Enrollment also includes 29% Asian, 5% multiracial, and 3% Hispanic. The school's White share is 16 points below the 77% share among Chester County residents. By the diversity index, Shamona Creek Elementary School comes in at 54%.
Shamona Creek Elementary School counts 36.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 13.4 students for each one. Across elementary schools in Pennsylvania, the average ratio is about 13.1:1. About 9% of enrolled students meet the income rules for free or reduced-price lunch. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Chester County is 38%.
allk12 grades Shamona Creek Elementary School an A. The grade compares the school only with Pennsylvania public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Shamona Creek Elementary School falls in the middle 80% of Pennsylvania schools: 83.9% actual against 73.9% predicted.
County data help place the school in context: in Chester County, median household income is about $127,208, roughly 57% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. The public schools of Chester County number 111 and enroll about 83,468.
The nearest other public school, Marsh Creek Sixth Grade Center, is about 0.1 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Ranked by average proficiency, Shamona Creek Elementary School places 2nd out of 7 schools in its immediate area.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Suburb: Large.
Shamona Creek Elementary School had 578 students in 2020-21 and 488 in 2024-25, a 16% decrease. The ratio was 14.4:1 in 2020-21 and 13.4:1 in 2024-25.
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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 Downingtown Area SD
- Downingtown HS West CampusHigh · 1,796 students
- Downingtown HS East CampusHigh · 1,708 students
- Downingtown Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,074 students
- Marsh Creek Sixth Grade CenterMiddle · 1,066 students
- Lionville Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,045 students
- Downingtown STEM AcademyHigh · 962 students
Other schools in Downingtown
- Downingtown HS West CampusHigh · 1,796 students
- Downingtown Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,074 students
- Marsh Creek Sixth Grade CenterMiddle · 1,066 students
- Downingtown STEM AcademyHigh · 962 students
- Lionville Elementary SchoolElementary · 668 students
- West Bradford Elementary SchoolElementary · 623 students
Nearby schools
- Marsh Creek Sixth Grade Center0.1 mi · 1,066
- Insight PA Cyber CS1.6 mi · 3,385
- Pickering Valley Elementary School1.7 mi · 423
- Uwchlan Hills Elementary School2.0 mi · 537
- Lionville Middle School2.3 mi · 1,045
- Lionville Elementary School2.3 mi · 668
Frequently asked questions
About Shamona Creek Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Shamona Creek Elementary School?
Shamona Creek Elementary School enrolls approximately 488 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Shamona Creek Elementary School serve?
Shamona Creek Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Shamona Creek Elementary School?
Approximately 13.4:1 students per teacher at Shamona Creek Elementary School.
How diverse is Shamona Creek Elementary School?
Shamona Creek Elementary School reports a student body of 61% White, 3% Hispanic, 2% Black, 29% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Shamona Creek Elementary School in?
Shamona Creek Elementary School is part of Downingtown Area SD.
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