Summary:
The city of Thorndale, Pennsylvania has only one school in the data set - Caln Elementary School, which serves grades K-5 and is part of the Coatesville Area School District. This district is ranked 507 out of 610 school districts in Pennsylvania and has a 1-star rating from SchoolDigger.
Caln Elementary School's academic performance, as measured by PSSA test scores, is consistently lower than the state averages across all grade levels and subject areas. For example, the school's proficiency rates in Math ranged from 22.4% to 39.4%, compared to the state average of 40.4% to 51.4%. In English Language Arts, the school's proficiency rates ranged from 20.3% to 31.8%, compared to the state average of 51.5% to 55.8%. The school's Science proficiency rates were higher, ranging from 53.9% to 53.9%, but still below the state average of 65.8% to 77.1%.
Despite the school's low academic performance, it has a relatively low student-teacher ratio of 13.6 and higher per-student spending of $17,167 compared to the state average. Additionally, the school serves a high-poverty population, with 100% of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch. This suggests that the issue may not be a lack of resources, but rather how those resources are being utilized to support student learning and address the challenges faced by the school's economically disadvantaged student population.
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