Uwchlan Hills El Sch

Uwchlan Hills El Sch is an elementary school of middle-of-the-pack scale in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, operated by Downingtown Area SD, hosting 537 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 21% larger than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 443 students.

Downingtown Area SD comprises 16 schools with combined enrollment of 13,047 students; Uwchlan Hills El Sch is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Uwchlan Hills El Sch logs that the largest single group is White, at 58% of enrollment. Other groups include 30% Asian, 6% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 77%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 10% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Chester County (around 38%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Uwchlan Hills El Sch tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 73.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 82.9%.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Chester County put the typical household earns roughly $127,208 per year, roughly 57% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Uwchlan Hills El Sch is one of 111 public schools in Chester County (combined enrollment of about 83,468 students).

Lionville El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Uwchlan Hills El Sch. On composite proficiency, Uwchlan Hills El Sch comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 65.2%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 11%: 482 students in 2018 compared to 537 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 81% to 58%. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 today.

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