Audrielle Lynch-Ellen Bustin El Sch

Audrielle Lynch-Ellen Bustin El Sch operates as a medium-sized elementary-level community in Athens, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Athens Area SD. Current enrollment sits at 542 students spanning grades K through 5. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Audrielle Lynch-Ellen Bustin El Sch sits 22% bigger than that benchmark.

Within Athens Area SD, which oversees 4 schools and 2,019 students, Audrielle Lynch-Ellen Bustin El Sch is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Audrielle Lynch-Ellen Bustin El Sch reports that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 6% Hispanic, 3% Black, 2% multiracial.

On the resource side, Audrielle Lynch-Ellen Bustin El Sch reports 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 102% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Bradford County runs at roughly 90%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Audrielle Lynch-Ellen Bustin El Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 33.8%; this one delivers 41.9%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Bradford County shows median household earnings sit near $63,675, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Audrielle Lynch-Ellen Bustin El Sch is one of 19 public schools in Bradford County (combined enrollment of about 8,392 students).

The closest other public school is Harlan Rowe MS, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Audrielle Lynch-Ellen Bustin El Sch ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 50.5%.

Audrielle Lynch-Ellen Bustin El Sch operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Audrielle Lynch-Ellen Bustin El Sch has decreased 6%, going from 575 students in 2018 to 542 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 2% to 6% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 today.

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