Summary:
The Upper Darby School District in Pennsylvania serves 12 schools, including 9 elementary schools, 2 middle schools, and 1 high school. The district faces significant socioeconomic challenges, with the majority of schools having a high percentage of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch.
While some individual schools, such as Hillcrest Elementary School, Primos Elementary School, and Garrettford Elementary School, demonstrate strong academic performance with high proficiency rates in Math, Science, and English Language Arts, the district-wide test scores are significantly lower than the state averages. This indicates a need to address the disparities in performance across the schools.
The high school in the district has a 87.5% four-year graduation rate and a 1.6% dropout rate, while the student-teacher ratios range from 10.6 at Hillcrest Elementary to 21.8 at the Upper Darby Kindergarten Center. The spending per student also varies, from $11,232 at the Upper Darby Kindergarten Center to $17,640 at Charles Kelly Elementary School. These findings suggest that the district faces challenges in resource allocation and support for its neediest schools to improve student outcomes.
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