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Worrall 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 67 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 69 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 11 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 74% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 68% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Worrall El Sch
Worrall El Sch, a mid-sized elementary school in Broomall, Pennsylvania, run under Marple Newtown SD, works with 449 students, covering grades K through 5.
Marple Newtown SD comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 3,882 students; Worrall El Sch is among them.
On demographics, Worrall El Sch lists that the largest single group is White, at 74% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 13% Asian, 6% multiracial, 5% Hispanic. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 63%.
In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.4:1. The state averages about 13.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 23% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Delaware County runs at roughly 58%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, Worrall El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 67.9%, the actual is 74.1%, a residual of +6.3 points.
Across the wider county, census data for Delaware County shows the typical household earns roughly $89,546 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Delaware County's 113 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,663 students), Worrall El Sch is one campus in the mix.
Marple Newtown SHS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Worrall El Sch. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Worrall El Sch ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 71.5%.
The school occupies a bedroom-community site.
Over the past 7-year window. Worrall El Sch's enrollment has expanded 23% since 2018, when it stood at 365 (now 449). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 85% to 74%. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 today.
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