Blue Mountain El West Sch

Blue Mountain El West Sch, a reasonably sized elementary campus in Friedensburg, Pennsylvania, overseen by Blue Mountain SD, serves 451 students, covering grades K through 5.

Blue Mountain SD runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 2,412 students. Blue Mountain El West Sch is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Blue Mountain El West Sch lists that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 9% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Blue Mountain El West Sch logs 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.7:1. The state averages about 13.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 39% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is below Schuylkill County's rate of about 66%.

With demographic context factored in, Blue Mountain El West Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 61.0%; this one delivers 66.6%.

Around the school, census data for Schuylkill County shows median household income runs about $68,313, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Schuylkill County runs 35 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,259 students), of which Blue Mountain El West Sch is one.

Schuylkill Haven MS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 4.1 miles from this campus. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Blue Mountain El West Sch at 1st of 7; the average score across the group is 44.9%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

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