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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school / High

Downingtown STEM Academy

Downingtown, Pennsylvania

NCES ID
420771007401
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Downingtown STEM Academy is a public high school in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, run by Downingtown Area SD. It enrols 924 students — the 10255th largest of 2,956 public schools in Pennsylvania.

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Reported figures, 2022–2023

The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.

Enrollment

924students

10255th nationally, tied with 20

Teachers

66.0FTE

7675th nationally, tied with 267

Students per teacher

14.0students

37664th nationally, tied with 1,054

Free or reduced-price lunch

5.8%percent

84953rd nationally, tied with 37

How these figures are defined

Enrollment

Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.

Teachers

Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.

Students per teacher

Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.

Free or reduced-price lunch

Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.

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Within Downingtown Area SD

Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Downingtown Hs West Campus1,798 students
  2. 2Downingtown Hs East Campus1,702 students
  3. 3Downingtown Ms1,154 students
  4. 4Marsh Creek Sixth Grade Center1,046 students
  5. 5Lionville Ms1,041 students
  6. 6Downingtown STEM Academy924 students
  7. 7Lionville El Sch652 students
  8. 8West Bradford El Sch637 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Pennsylvania median across 2,956 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment+81.2%
  • Teachers+88.6%
  • Students per teacher+3.7%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−88.7%
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Sources & licence

Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.

Provenance

National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data — school and district directory
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.