Avella El Center

Avella El Center, an intimate elementary school in Avella, Pennsylvania, run under Avella Area SD, hosts 242 students, covering grades K through 6. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Avella El Center sits 45% smaller than that benchmark.

Within Avella Area SD, which oversees 2 schools and 470 students, Avella El Center is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Avella El Center records that nearly all students (95%) are White; the rest is composed of 4% multiracial.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 64% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Washington County runs at roughly 49%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Avella El Center sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.0%; this one delivers 44.8%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Washington County shows median household earnings sit near $78,958, roughly 33% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Washington County's 56 public schools (combined enrollment of about 26,079 students), Avella El Center is one campus in the mix.

Avella Area JSHS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Avella El Center ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 52.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Avella El Center has declined 14%, going from 282 students in 2018 to 242 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 12.9:1 in 2018 to 10.2:1 today.

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