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Stewartstown 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 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 56 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 17 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 1 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 60% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 65% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Stewartstown El Sch
As an average-sized primary school in Stewartstown, Pennsylvania, Stewartstown El Sch serves 440 students from grades K through 4, operated by South Eastern SD.
South Eastern SD comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 2,495 students; Stewartstown El Sch is among them.
Looking at the student body, Stewartstown El Sch logs that nearly all students (88%) are White. Other groups include 4% Black, 3% multiracial, 3% Hispanic.
On the resource side, On paper, Stewartstown El Sch has 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. Around 30% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against York County (around 53%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Stewartstown El Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 64.9%; this one delivers 59.9%.
Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for York County put median household income runs about $84,829, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, York County runs 111 public schools (combined enrollment of about 64,242 students), of which Stewartstown El Sch is one.
The closest other public school is Shrewsbury El Sch, roughly 4.6 miles away. Within ten miles, there are 8 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Stewartstown El Sch comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 59.9%.
The campus sits in a small-town setting.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 6%: 417 students in 2018 compared to 440 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 94% to 88%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 today.
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