1
Enrollment
644
Elementary
DISTRICT 500 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·COUNCIL ROCK SD·NCES 420696001130
Sol Feinstone Elementary School
1090 Eagle Rd, Newtown, PA 18940 · (215) 944-2400 · Bucks County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY41-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL644 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 84% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
14.0:1
46 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
7%
45 students
DISTRICT 16% · 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 | 58 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 111 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 65 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 85 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 113 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 105 | 16% |
| Grade 6 | 107 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (58) is 46% smaller than its 6th grade class (107).
Student demographics
37%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 33% · 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
78.1%
PA avg 51.1% . +1.5pp since 2023
Math
82.2%
PA avg 43.0% . +3.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 78 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 82 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 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 | 78.1% | 82.2% |
| 2023-24 | 76.6% | 78.6% |
% 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
80.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
74.6%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 80% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 75% 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 Sol Feinstone Elementary School
Sol Feinstone Elementary School's state test result (80.3% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sol Feinstone Elementary School this school | 644 | 7.0% | 80.3% |
| Jamison Elementary School Jamison | 599 | 10.0% | 72.3% |
| Butler Elementary School Chalfont | 757 | 13.1% | 70.9% |
| Eisenhower Elementary School Pittsburgh | 524 | 11.5% | 92.1% |
| Glenwood Elementary School Media | 586 | 14.7% | 77.9% |
| Radnor Elementary School Radnor | 554 | 13.0% | 81.7% |
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 Sol Feinstone Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Bucks County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 80.3% | #104 of 1,396 | #6 of 71 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 82.2% | #80 of 1,511 ▲ 22 | #2 of 72 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 78.1% | #91 of 1,511 ▲ 89 | #10 of 72 ▲ 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 644 | #189 of 1,638 | #14 of 74 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.0:1 | #1,063 of 1,528 | #54 of 71 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 37.4% | #820 of 1,531 | #43 of 71 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 7.0% | #1,589 of 1,600 | #72 of 73 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.7% | #818 of 1,045 | #39 of 50 |
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
644
-54 (-8%) vs 2020
-3% since 1990-91, when it was 667
Student : Teacher
14.0:1
was 14.2:1
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 | 644 | 46.1 | 14.0:1 | 7% (45) |
| 2023-24 | 634 | 44.9 | 14.1:1 | 7% (45) |
| 2022-23 | 649 | 47.7 | 13.6:1 | 6% (40) |
| 2020-21 | 698 | 49 | 14.2:1 | 4% (29) |
| 2017-18 | 683 | 44.7 | 15.3:1 | 3% (21) |
| 2015-16 | 662 | 41 | 16.1:1 | 2% (12) |
| 2010-11 | 740 | 49 | 15.1:1 | 2% (13) |
| 2000-01 | 664 | 40 | 16.6:1 | 1% (7) |
| 1990-91 | 667 | 39 | 17.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Sol Feinstone Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 6% (683 to 644); teachers up 3% (44.7 to 46.1).
About Sol Feinstone Elementary School
Sol Feinstone Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school that serves part of Newtown, Pennsylvania. The school's 644 students are in kindergarten through 6. Enrollment is 45% higher than the average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania, which is about 443.
Council Rock SD has 14 schools and 10,391 students, and Sol Feinstone Elementary School is one of those schools.
White students make up a majority at Sol Feinstone Elementary School, at 78%. The remaining students are 11% Asian, 6% multiracial, and 4% Hispanic. For comparison, Bucks County is about 81% White. Sol Feinstone Elementary School's diversity index is 37%, against a US figure of 70%.
Federal staffing data show 46.1 full-time-equivalent teachers at Sol Feinstone Elementary School and a ratio of 14.0:1. The school has more students per teacher than the 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania. The count of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch equals 7% of enrollment. That rate is below the 40% average among public schools in Bucks County.
Sol Feinstone Elementary School is graded A- by allk12, scoring above 84% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Schools in Pennsylvania with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 74.6%. Sol Feinstone Elementary School scores 80.3%.
Within Bucks County, the median household income is $114,764, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 45% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 4%. In all, Bucks County has 123 public schools and roughly 81,956 students.
The nearest public school is Newtown Elementary School, at about 2.7 miles. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of the 9 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Sol Feinstone Elementary School is 3rd on average proficiency.
NCES describes the area around Sol Feinstone Elementary School as Rural: Fringe, meaning in rural territory close to an urban area.
Sol Feinstone Elementary School's enrollment dropped from 698 in 2020-21 to 644 in 2024-25.
If you have questions about school safety, transportation, and start times at Sol Feinstone Elementary School, you can post them here. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Bucks County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
647,461
Census ACS
Median income
$114,764
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
45%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
123
81,956 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Council Rock SD
- Council Rock HS SouthHigh · 1,921 students
- Council Rock HS NorthHigh · 1,674 students
- Holland Middle SchoolMiddle · 960 students
- Newtown Middle SchoolMiddle · 833 students
- Goodnoe Elementary SchoolElementary · 668 students
- Churchville Elementary SchoolElementary · 558 students
Other schools in Newtown
- Council Rock HS NorthHigh · 1,674 students
- Newtown Middle SchoolMiddle · 833 students
- Goodnoe Elementary SchoolElementary · 668 students
- Newtown Elementary SchoolElementary · 557 students
Nearby schools
- Newtown Elementary School2.7 mi · 557
- Wrightstown Elementary School3.4 mi · 399
- Goodnoe Elementary School4.0 mi · 668
- Council Rock HS North4.1 mi · 1,674
- Newtown Middle School4.4 mi · 833
- Afton Elementary School4.6 mi · 483
Frequently asked questions
About Sol Feinstone Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Sol Feinstone Elementary School?
Sol Feinstone Elementary School enrolls approximately 644 students in grades KG-06.
What grades does Sol Feinstone Elementary School serve?
Sol Feinstone Elementary School serves grades KG-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Sol Feinstone Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Sol Feinstone Elementary School is approximately 14.0:1 (46 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Sol Feinstone Elementary School?
Sol Feinstone Elementary School reports a student body of 78% White, 4% Hispanic, 0% Black, 11% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Is Sol Feinstone Elementary School public or private?
Sol Feinstone Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Council Rock SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.