Enrollment
251
Elementary
DISTRICT 349 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHESTER-UPLAND SD·NCES 420586001829
Stetser Elementary School
808 E 17th St, Chester, PA 19013 · (610) 447-3795 · Delaware County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL251 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 13% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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
11.4:1
22 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.5:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
92%
231 students
DISTRICT 98% · STATE 75%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 20 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 40 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 40 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 41 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 43 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 24 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 43 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (40) is 7% smaller than its 5th grade class (43).
Student demographics
31%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 32% · 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
Stetser Elementary School→STEM at Showalter
Based on grade levels within Chester-Upland SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
12.6%
PA avg 51.1% . -12.7pp since 2023
Math
22.1%
PA avg 43.0% . -0.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 13 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 22 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 13 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 12.6% | 22.1% |
| 2023-24 | 25.3% | 22.4% |
% 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
24.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
38.1%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-13.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 25% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 38% 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 Stetser Elementary School
Stetser Elementary School's state test result (24.7% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stetser Elementary School this school | 251 | 92.0% | 24.7% |
| Logan James School Philadelphia | 264 | 92.4% | 30.1% |
| Morris Robert School Philadelphia | 215 | 93.0% | 19.2% |
| Howe Julia Ward School Philadelphia | 229 | 91.7% | 20.8% |
| Kenderton Elementary School Philadelphia | 300 | 94.3% | 8.4% |
| Propel CS-Hazelwood Pittsburgh | 230 | 96.5% | 4.8% |
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 Stetser Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Delaware County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 24.7% | #1,243 of 1,396 | #53 of 59 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 22.1% | #1,261 of 1,511 ▼ 33 | #54 of 69 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 12.6% | #1,460 of 1,511 ▼ 122 | #66 of 69 ▼ 7 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 251 | #1,408 of 1,638 | #67 of 75 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.4:1 | #283 of 1,528 | #24 of 74 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 31.3% | #962 of 1,531 | #61 of 74 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 92.0% | #631 of 1,600 | #25 of 73 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.4% | #677 of 1,045 | #21 of 45 |
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
251
-22 (-8%) vs 2020
-19% since 1990-91, when it was 308
Student : Teacher
11.4:1
was 11.9:1
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 | 251 | 22 | 11.4:1 | 92% (231) |
| 2023-24 | 231 | 21 | 11.0:1 | 100% (231) |
| 2022-23 | 245 | 20 | 12.3:1 | 100% (244) |
| 2020-21 | 273 | 23 | 11.9:1 | 99% (270) |
| 2017-18 | 277 | 16 | 17.3:1 | 96% (267) |
| 2015-16 | 244 | 16 | 15.3:1 | 100% (244) |
| 2010-11 | 247 | 18 | 13.7:1 | 81% (200) |
| 2000-01 | 284 | 21 | 13.5:1 | 83% (236) |
| 1990-91 | 308 | 14 | 22.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Stetser Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 9% (277 to 251); teachers up 38% (16 to 22).
About Stetser Elementary School
Stetser Elementary School is a public elementary school run by Chester-Upland SD in Chester, Pennsylvania. Total enrollment is 251 students, and the grades served are pre-K through 6. By comparison, elementary schools in Pennsylvania enroll about 443 students on average.
The district for Stetser Elementary School is Chester-Upland SD, with 7 schools and 3,039 students.
Stetser Elementary School is 82% Black by enrollment. Next come 9% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, and 2% White. That compares with about 22% Black among all Delaware County residents. The diversity index for Stetser Elementary School is 31%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Stetser Elementary School has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.4:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania is 13.1:1. At Stetser Elementary School, 92% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. That is 34 points above the 58% average for public schools in Delaware County.
On the allk12 Grade, Stetser Elementary School lands at D, ahead of 13% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools.
Stetser Elementary School's actual average proficiency rate across its state test results (24.7%) and its predicted rate (38.1%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of Pennsylvania schools.
The school's county is Delaware County. According to Census Bureau estimates, median household income comes to about $89,546, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 42%, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. There are 113 public schools in the county, enrolling about 74,663, Stetser Elementary School among them.
The closest school to Stetser Elementary School is Edgmont Scholars Academy, located about 0.4 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Stetser Elementary School. Of 6 schools in the immediate area with test results, Stetser Elementary School ranks 4th on average proficiency.
The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Large).
Enrollment figures show a drop of 22 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
The allk12 page for Stetser Elementary School lets the school community talk about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. You can also rate the school on this page.
Delaware County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
579,222
Census ACS
Median income
$89,546
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
113
74,663 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Chester-Upland SD
- Chester High SchoolHigh · 806 students
- STEM at ShowalterHigh · 477 students
- Edgmont Scholars AcademyElementary · 422 students
- Chester Upland School of ArtsElementary · 384 students
- Toby Farms Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 359 students
- Main Street SchoolElementary · 340 students
Other schools in Chester
- Chester Community CSElementary · 3,782 students
- Chester High SchoolHigh · 806 students
- Chester Charter Scholars Academy CSCombined · 701 students
- STEM at ShowalterHigh · 477 students
- Edgmont Scholars AcademyElementary · 422 students
- Chester Upland School of ArtsElementary · 384 students
Nearby schools
- Edgmont Scholars Academy0.4 mi · 422
- Eddystone Elementary School0.9 mi · 226
- Chester Community CS0.9 mi · 3,782
- Chester High School1.1 mi · 806
- Woodlyn Elementary School1.2 mi · 320
- Parkside Elementary School1.2 mi · 252
Frequently asked questions
About Stetser Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Stetser Elementary School?
Stetser Elementary School enrolls approximately 251 students in grades PK-06.
What grades does Stetser Elementary School serve?
Stetser Elementary School serves grades PK-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Stetser Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Stetser Elementary School is approximately 11.4:1 (22 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Stetser Elementary School?
Student demographics at Stetser Elementary School are roughly 2% White, 9% Hispanic, 82% Black, 6% Two or more.
Is Stetser Elementary School public or private?
Stetser Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Chester-Upland SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.