Blue Ridge El Sch

Blue Ridge El Sch is one of the moderately sized elementary-level communitys in New Milford, Pennsylvania, run under Blue Ridge SD, with 496 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Blue Ridge El Sch is one of 3 schools operated by Blue Ridge SD, a district that works with 1,018 students overall.

On demographics, Blue Ridge El Sch logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%). Other groups include 4% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Susquehanna County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Blue Ridge El Sch tighter than the state norm the norm. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Susquehanna County runs at roughly 78%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Blue Ridge El Sch ranks in the top 10% of Pennsylvania public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 34.6%; Blue Ridge El Sch posts 54.0%, +19.4 points above that line.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Susquehanna County put median household earnings sit near $68,487, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Susquehanna County's 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,728 students), Blue Ridge El Sch is one campus in the mix.

Blue Ridge HS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Blue Ridge El Sch. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Blue Ridge El Sch ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 48.0%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Blue Ridge El Sch's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 503 (now 496).

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