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Brockway Area Elementary Sch
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Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedWhat this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 61 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 65 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 67% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 55% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Brockway Area Elementary Sch
Brockway Area Elementary Sch, a moderately sized K-5 school in Brockway, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Brockway Area SD, teaches 433 students, covering grades K through 6.
Brockway Area Elementary Sch is one of 2 schools operated by Brockway Area SD, a district that caters to 833 students overall.
In terms of who attends, Brockway Area Elementary Sch shows that 98% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Compared to Jefferson County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Brockway Area Elementary Sch has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Brockway Area Elementary Sch tighter than the state norm the norm. About 52% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Jefferson County runs at roughly 76%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Brockway Area Elementary Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 55.3%; this one delivers 67.2%.
Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Jefferson County) logs that median household income runs about $58,686, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Brockway Area Elementary Sch is one of 10 public schools in Jefferson County (combined enrollment of about 4,873 students).
Nearest neighbor: Brockway Area JSHS, around 0.1 miles off. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Brockway Area Elementary Sch at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 54.1%.
The school occupies a small-town site.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 19%: 537 students in 2018 compared to 433 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 in 2025.
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