Public school / Primary
South El Sch
Trappe, Pennsylvania
- NCES ID
- 421893003327
- District
- Perkiomen Valley SD
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
South El Sch is a public primary school in Trappe, Pennsylvania, run by Perkiomen Valley SD. It enrols 464 students — the 41943rd largest of 2,956 public schools in Pennsylvania.
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
464
Teachers
39.0
Students per teacher
11.9
Free or reduced-price lunch
18.8%
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.
Within Perkiomen Valley 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.
- 1Perkiomen Valley Hs1,736 students
- 2Perkiomen Valley Ms-East676 students
- 3Skippack El Sch583 students
- 4Perkiomen Valley Ms-West557 students
- 5Evergreen El Sch510 students
- 6Schwenksville El Sch485 students
- 7South El Sch464 students
- Enrollment−9.0%
- Teachers+11.4%
- Students per teacher−11.9%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−63.3%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
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