Stetser El Sch

Stetser El Sch, an intimate elementary school in Chester, Pennsylvania, overseen by Chester-Upland SD, hosts 251 students, covering grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 43% leaner than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 443 students.

Within Chester-Upland SD, which oversees 7 schools and 3,039 students, Stetser El Sch is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Stetser El Sch logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (82%). The remainder consists of 9% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 2% White. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

On the resource side, Stetser El Sch shows 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.4:1. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 92% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Delaware County runs at roughly 58%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Stetser El Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 38.1%; this one delivers 24.7%.

Across the wider county, 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 roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Delaware County's 113 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,663 students), Stetser El Sch is one campus in the mix.

Edgmont Scholars Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Stetser El Sch ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 35.8%.

Stetser El Sch operates from a suburban location.

Five-year trend. Stetser El Sch's enrollment has shrank 9% since 2018, when it stood at 277 (now 251). Over the same period, the Black share shrank from 94% to 82%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.3:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 today.

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