Tinicum El Sch

Tinicum El Sch, a minimally staffed elementary school in Pipersville, Pennsylvania, part of Palisades SD, caters to 135 students, covering grades K through 5. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Tinicum El Sch sits 70% below that benchmark.

Palisades SD comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,372 students; Tinicum El Sch is among them.

On demographics, Tinicum El Sch records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (92%); the rest reads as 4% multiracial, 2% Hispanic. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 81%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Tinicum El Sch lists 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. An estimated 16% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is south of Bucks County's rate of about 40%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Tinicum El Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 70.6%; this one delivers 79.0%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Bucks County put median household income runs about $114,764, about 45% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Bucks County runs 123 public schools (combined enrollment of about 81,956 students), of which Tinicum El Sch is one.

Frenchtown Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 4.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Tinicum El Sch. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Tinicum El Sch at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 55.9%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Over the past 7-year window. Tinicum El Sch's enrollment has contracted 21% since 2018, when it stood at 170 (now 135).

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