Sugartown El Sch

Sugartown El Sch is one of the reasonably sized elementary campuss in Malvern, Pennsylvania, overseen by Great Valley SD, with 449 students on its rolls from grades K through 4.

Across the 7 schools in Great Valley SD (4,822 students total), Sugartown El Sch accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Sugartown El Sch logs that the largest single group is White at 52%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder comes out to 22% Asian, 18% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 2% Black. The wider county runs roughly 77% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.4:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 30% of students at Sugartown El Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Sugartown El Sch tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 64.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 61.4%.

Around the school, census data for Chester County shows the typical household earns roughly $127,208 per year, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Chester County's 111 public schools (combined enrollment of about 83,468 students), Sugartown El Sch is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is General Wayne El Sch, roughly 1.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Sugartown El Sch ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 68.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Sugartown El Sch has declined 8%, going from 487 students in 2018 to 449 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 66% to 52% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.5:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 in 2025.

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