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Fern Hill Elementary School

Basic InfoStudents and TeachersTest PerformanceSchool District

915 Lincoln Ave

West Chester PA, 19380, Chester County

Phone: 484-266-1600

Ranking:

(285 out of 2,311, top 12%)*

Type: Regular Primary School

Status: Currently Operational

Grade: Kindergarten to Grade 5

School District: West Chester Area School District

Title I Eligible School: Yes School-Wide Title I: NA

Magnet: NA

Charter: NA

Shared-Time School: NA

Students and Teachers

	2013-2014		2012-2013		2011-2012		2010-2011		2009-2010		2008-2009		2007-2008
	Amount	%	Amount	%	Amount	%	Amount	%	Amount	%	Amount	%	Amount	%
Total Teachers:	33		34		31		31		32		33		40
Total Students:	495		434		472		461		462		433		445
Kindergarten:	77	15.6%	55	12.7%	64	13.6%	73	15.8%	68	14.7%	57	13.2%	49	11.0%
Grade 1:	85	17.2%	87	20.0%	91	19.3%	79	17.1%	71	15.4%	62	14.3%	81	18.2%
Grade 2:	84	17.0%	75	17.3%	89	18.9%	70	15.2%	69	14.9%	77	17.8%	83	18.7%
Grade 3:	83	16.8%	86	19.8%	72	15.3%	63	13.7%	85	18.4%	83	19.2%	80	18.0%
Grade 4:	93	18.8%	67	15.4%	67	14.2%	91	19.7%	87	18.8%	80	18.5%	81	18.2%
Grade 5:	73	14.7%	64	14.7%	89	18.9%	85	18.4%	82	17.7%	74	17.1%	71	16.0%
Ungraded:	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
Student By Gender:
Male:	257	51.9%	228	52.5%	256	54.2%	232	50.3%	220	47.6%	200	46.2%	217	48.8%
Female:	238	48.1%	206	47.5%	216	45.8%	229	49.7%	234	50.6%	225	52.0%	224	50.3%
Student By Races:
American Indian/Alaska Native:	1	0.2%	1	0.2%	2	0.4%	1	0.2%	0	0.0%	0	0.0%	0	0.0%
Asian:	26	5.3%	28	6.5%	30	6.4%	30	6.5%	29	6.3%	29	6.7%	27	6.1%
Hispanic:	50	10.1%	37	8.5%	40	8.5%	34	7.4%	32	6.9%	20	4.6%	20	4.5%
Black:	38	7.7%	24	5.5%	30	6.4%	37	8.0%	35	7.6%	26	6.0%	38	8.5%
White:	374	75.6%	344	79.3%	370	78.4%	359	77.9%	366	79.2%	358	82.7%	360	80.9%
Hawaiian Native/Pacific Islander:	0	0.0%	0	0.0%	0	0.0%	0	0.0%	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
Two or More Races:	6	1.2%	0	0.0%	0	0.0%	0	0.0%	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
Lunch Program:
Free Lunch Program Eligible:	81	16.4%	56	12.9%	66	14.0%	67	14.5%	46	10.0%	37	8.5%	37	8.3%
Reduced-Price Lunch Program Eligible:	20	4.0%	8	1.8%	12	2.5%	7	1.5%	10	2.2%	9	2.1%	12	2.7%
Student-Teacher Ratio:	14.95		12.75		15.08		14.73		14.53		13.10		11.20

Test Performance

Year	Test	Grade	Measurement	Score	School District	State Average
PSSA
2005	Math	3rd Grade	% met std	96%	94%	81%
2006	Math	3rd Grade	% met std	88%	93%	83%
2007	Math	3rd Grade	% met std	89.9%	89.5%	78.5%
2008	Math	3rd Grade	% met std	88.1%	91.1%	80.5%
2009	Math	3rd Grade	% met std	88.3%	92.5%	81.7%
2010	Math	3rd Grade	% met std	96.2%	94.1%	84.5%
2011	Math	3rd Grade	% met std	93.1%	93.7%	83.5%
2012	Math	3rd Grade	% met std	100%	93.2%	80%
2005	Reading	3rd Grade	% met std	87%	89%	68%
2006	Reading	3rd Grade	% met std	79%	85%	69%
2007	Reading	3rd Grade	% met std	82.3%	87.7%	72.8%
2008	Reading	3rd Grade	% met std	86.8%	89.2%	76.8%
2009	Reading	3rd Grade	% met std	90.5%	88.3%	77%
2010	Reading	3rd Grade	% met std	86.1%	89.9%	75.2%
2011	Reading	3rd Grade	% met std	91.4%	91%	77.2%
2012	Reading	3rd Grade	% met std	93%	89.5%	74.1%
2006	Math	4th Grade	% met std	94.5%	93.5%	77.2%
2007	Math	4th Grade	% met std	86.6%	91.3%	78%
2008	Math	4th Grade	% met std	85.3%	92.9%	79.6%
2009	Math	4th Grade	% met std	92.5%	94.5%	81.8%
2010	Math	4th Grade	% met std	98.7%	97.8%	84.9%
2011	Math	4th Grade	% met std	91.7%	95.8%	85.2%
2012	Math	4th Grade	% met std	98.4%	97.3%	82.6%
2006	Reading	4th Grade	% met std	85.7%	87.9%	68.1%
2007	Reading	4th Grade	% met std	90.9%	86.4%	70.1%
2008	Reading	4th Grade	% met std	86.6%	87.1%	70.1%
2009	Reading	4th Grade	% met std	87.5%	88.1%	72.6%
2010	Reading	4th Grade	% met std	84.6%	89.2%	72.9%
2011	Reading	4th Grade	% met std	88.1%	93.3%	73.3%
2012	Reading	4th Grade	% met std	95.1%	93.5%	72.1%
2008	Science	4th Grade	% met std	95.9%	95.1%	81.5%
2009	Science	4th Grade	% met std	93.8%	95.4%	83.4%
2010	Science	4th Grade	% met std	90.5%	94%	81.4%
2011	Science	4th Grade	% met std	94.1%	95.8%	82.9%
2012	Science	4th Grade	% met std	93.7%	97%	82.3%
2003	Math	5th Grade	% met std	84.7%	80.1%	56.3%
2004	Math	5th Grade	% met std	85.1%	81.9%	61.8%
2005	Math	5th Grade	% met std	92.7%	82.5%	69%
2006	Math	5th Grade	% met std	90.2%	81.3%	66.9%
2007	Math	5th Grade	% met std	92.6%	87.1%	71%
2008	Math	5th Grade	% met std	96.9%	89.8%	73.2%
2009	Math	5th Grade	% met std	90%	89.4%	73.5%
2010	Math	5th Grade	% met std	92%	92.3%	74.4%
2011	Math	5th Grade	% met std	90.9%	90.2%	76.3%
2012	Math	5th Grade	% met std	95%	91.2%	73.3%
2003	Reading	5th Grade	% met std	84.7%	80.1%	58%
2004	Reading	5th Grade	% met std	87.3%	83.3%	62.7%
2005	Reading	5th Grade	% met std	89.5%	83.9%	64.2%
2006	Reading	5th Grade	% met std	84.1%	83.1%	60.6%
2007	Reading	5th Grade	% met std	82.8%	81.3%	60%
2008	Reading	5th Grade	% met std	89.2%	82.6%	61.6%
2009	Reading	5th Grade	% met std	90%	85.3%	64.5%
2010	Reading	5th Grade	% met std	81.3%	83.6%	64.1%
2011	Reading	5th Grade	% met std	86.7%	87.7%	67.3%
2012	Reading	5th Grade	% met std	95%	90.9%	65%
2006	Writing	5th Grade	% met std	85.3%	76.2%	54.1%
2007	Writing	5th Grade	% met std	73.4%	78.7%	57.3%
2008	Writing	5th Grade	% met std	72.7%	73.7%	57.3%
2009	Writing	5th Grade	% met std	81.2%	79.6%	58.1%
2010	Writing	5th Grade	% met std	81%	80.7%	61.8%
2011	Writing	5th Grade	% met std	81.7%	85.7%	67.1%
2012	Writing	5th Grade	% met std	95.2%	88.8%	64.2%

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* Fern Hill Elementary School was rated 4.5 out of 5 by USA.com. The ranking was calculated based on publically available historical Math and English performance data.