Enrollment
234
Elementary
DISTRICT 317 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·JERSEY SHORE AREA SD·NCES 421248003031
Avis Elementary School
1088 Third St, Jersey Shore, PA 17740 · (570) 753-5220 · Clinton County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL234 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 43% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Pennsylvania public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.0:1
15 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.9:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
54%
127 students
DISTRICT 54% · STATE 75%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 38 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 37 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 39 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 38 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 36 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 46 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (38) is 17% smaller than its 5th grade class (46).
Student demographics
15%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 11% · STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within Jersey Shore Area SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
42.3%
PA avg 51.1% . -19.2pp since 2023
Math
42.7%
PA avg 43.0% . -14.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 42 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 43 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 19 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 14 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 42.3% | 42.7% |
| 2023-24 | 61.5% | 56.8% |
% Proficient or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: PSSA + Keystone. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
54.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.3%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 54% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Pennsylvania's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Avis Elementary School
Avis Elementary School's state test result (54.5% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Avis Elementary School this school | 234 | 54.3% | 54.5% |
| Indian Valley Intrmd School Reedsville | 212 | 54.7% | 54.5% |
| Mendon Elementary School Ruffsdale | 234 | 57.3% | 67.1% |
| Northwest Area Intermediate School Shickshinny | 260 | 55.0% | 45.7% |
| Lake-Noxen Elementary School Harvey's Lake | 236 | 55.9% | 62.6% |
| Independence Elementary School Aliquippa | 228 | 49.6% | 67.2% |
Matched among Pennsylvania elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Avis Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 54.5% | #751 of 1,396 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 42.7% | #954 of 1,511 ▼ 375 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 42.3% | #961 of 1,511 ▼ 381 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 234 | #1,451 of 1,638 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.0:1 | #1,392 of 1,528 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 14.5% | #1,312 of 1,531 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 54.3% | #920 of 1,600 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +6.4% | #267 of 450 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
234
+73 (+45%) vs 2020
-32% since 1990-91, when it was 343
Student : Teacher
16.0:1
was 11.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 234 | 14.6 | 16.0:1 | 54% (127) |
| 2023-24 | 246 | 15.5 | 15.9:1 | 52% (127) |
| 2022-23 | 192 | 13.7 | 14.0:1 | 45% (86) |
| 2020-21 | 161 | 14 | 11.5:1 | 42% (68) |
| 2017-18 | 220 | 15 | 14.6:1 | 43% (94) |
| 2015-16 | 229 | 13 | 17.6:1 | 51% (117) |
| 2010-11 | 247 | 16 | 15.4:1 | 47% (116) |
| 2000-01 | 314 | 17 | 18.5:1 | 27% (86) |
| 1990-91 | 343 | 16 | 21.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Avis Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 6% (220 to 234); teachers down 3% (15 to 14.6).
About Avis Elementary School
Avis Elementary School is a low-enrollment elementary school serving families in Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania. It offers kindergarten through 5 and has 234 students enrolled. Elementary schools in Pennsylvania have about 443 students on average; enrollment here is 47% lower.
Enrollment across the 5 schools in Jersey Shore Area SD totals 2,088 students.
White students are 92% of those enrolled at Avis Elementary School. Next come 5% multiracial and 2% Hispanic. That is in line with Clinton County, where about 94% of residents are White. A diversity index of 15% means there is a 15% chance two randomly chosen students at Avis Elementary School are from different groups.
The school's 14.6 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.0:1. Elementary schools in Pennsylvania average 13.1:1, 2.9 fewer students per teacher than here. Income data for the school show 54% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That rate is below the 99% average among public schools in Clinton County.
Among Pennsylvania public elementary schools, Avis Elementary School outscored 43%, which works out to a C+ on the allk12 Grade.
Avis Elementary School's actual average proficiency rate across its state test results (54.5%) and its predicted rate (54.3%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of Pennsylvania schools.
In Clinton County, where the school is located, median household income comes to about $60,816, about 22% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 11% of residents are in poverty. There are 11 public schools in the county, enrolling about 3,879, Avis Elementary School among them.
Among nearby public schools, Jersey Shore Area Middle School is closest at about 2.5 miles. Other public schools within five miles number 3. Among 8 nearby schools that report test results, Avis Elementary School ranks 4th on proficiency.
The school is in rural territory close to an urban area, according to its NCES locale (Rural: Fringe).
Reported enrollment: 161 (2020-21) and 234 (2024-25). These figures may describe different sets of grades. The student-to-teacher ratio went up from 11.5:1 to 16.0:1.
This page is set up for the Avis Elementary School community to discuss open houses, carpools, and field trips. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Clinton County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
37,798
Census ACS
Median income
$60,816
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
22%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
11
3,879 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Jersey Shore Area SD
- Jersey Shore Area SHSHigh · 672 students
- Jersey Shore Area Elementary SchoolElementary · 499 students
- Jersey Shore Area Middle SchoolMiddle · 466 students
- Salladasburg Elementary SchoolElementary · 217 students
Other schools in Jersey Shore
- Jersey Shore Area SHSHigh · 672 students
- Jersey Shore Area Elementary SchoolElementary · 499 students
- Jersey Shore Area Middle SchoolMiddle · 466 students
- Salladasburg Elementary SchoolElementary · 217 students
Nearby schools
- Jersey Shore Area Middle School2.5 mi · 466
- Jersey Shore Area Elementary School2.6 mi · 499
- Jersey Shore Area SHS2.6 mi · 672
- Salladasburg Elementary School6.6 mi · 217
- Woodward Elementary School7.2 mi · 215
- Robb Elementary School7.8 mi · 375
Frequently asked questions
About Avis Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Avis Elementary School?
Avis Elementary School enrolls approximately 234 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Avis Elementary School serve?
Avis Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Avis Elementary School?
Approximately 16.0:1 students per teacher at Avis Elementary School.
How diverse is Avis Elementary School?
Avis Elementary School reports a student body of 92% White, 2% Hispanic, 1% Black, 5% Two or more.
Is Avis Elementary School public or private?
Avis Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Jersey Shore Area SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.