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Springton Manor 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 73 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 72 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 75% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 73% 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 Springton Manor El Sch
Set in Glenmoore, Pennsylvania, Springton Manor El Sch is an average-sized elementary school, run under Downingtown Area SD. It teaches 555 students across grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 25% bigger than the state mean of about 443.
Downingtown Area SD comprises 16 schools with combined enrollment of 13,047 students; Springton Manor El Sch is among them.
Demographically, Springton Manor El Sch shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (83%). Beyond that, the school reports 6% Asian, 6% multiracial, 5% Hispanic.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Springton Manor El Sch higher than the state norm the norm. About 12% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Chester County's rate of about 38%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Springton Manor El Sch tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 72.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 75.4%.
Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Chester County) reports that median household earnings sit near $127,208, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Chester County's 111 public schools (combined enrollment of about 83,468 students), Springton Manor El Sch is one campus in the mix.
Brandywine-Wallace El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.5 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Springton Manor El Sch ranks 5th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 71.3%.
Springton Manor El Sch operates from a low-density location.
Five-year trend. Springton Manor El Sch's enrollment has climbed 11% since 2018, when it stood at 499 (now 555). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 88% to 83%.
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