Cambria Heights El Sch

Set in Carrolltown, Pennsylvania, Cambria Heights El Sch is a mid-tier K-5 school, operated by Cambria Heights SD. It caters to 533 students across grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 20% above the state mean of about 443.

Cambria Heights SD runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,223 students. Cambria Heights El Sch is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Cambria Heights El Sch lists that 96% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 3% multiracial.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. Around 53% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Cambria County runs at roughly 73%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Cambria Heights El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.0%, the actual is 56.7%, a residual of +1.7 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Cambria County put median household income runs about $58,418, 24% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Cambria Heights El Sch is one of 37 public schools in Cambria County (combined enrollment of about 15,789 students).

The closest other public school is Cambria Heights MS, roughly 4.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Cambria Heights El Sch. On composite proficiency, Cambria Heights El Sch comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 55.6%.

Cambria Heights El Sch operates from a low-density location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 8%: 582 students in 2018 compared to 533 in 2025.

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