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Public school / Primary

Hillsdale El Sch

West Chester, Pennsylvania

NCES ID
422529006910
District
West Chester Area SD
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Hillsdale El Sch is a public primary school in West Chester, Pennsylvania, run by West Chester Area SD. It enrols 545 students — the 32102nd 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

545students

32102nd nationally, tied with 100

Teachers

43.0FTE

21160th nationally, tied with 1,123

Students per teacher

12.7students

26003rd nationally, tied with 775

Free or reduced-price lunch

18.2%percent

78249th nationally, tied with 50

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 West Chester 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. 1West Chester Henderson Hs1,429 students
  2. 2West Chester East Hs1,251 students
  3. 3West Chester Bayard Rustin Hs1,210 students
  4. 4E N Peirce Ms1,018 students
  5. 5J R Fugett Ms908 students
  6. 6Stetson Ms843 students
  7. 7Sarah W Starkweather El Sch578 students
  8. 8Hillsdale El Sch545 students
Distance from the state median

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

  • Enrollment+6.9%
  • Teachers+22.9%
  • Students per teacher−5.9%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−64.5%
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Where this sits

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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.