Cambridge Springs El Sch

Cambridge Springs El Sch is one of the close-knit primary schools in Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Penncrest SD, with 353 students on its rolls from grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 20% below the state mean of about 443.

Across the 6 schools in Penncrest SD (2,399 students total), Cambridge Springs El Sch accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Cambridge Springs El Sch reports that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 5% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Cambridge Springs El Sch reports 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 58% of students at Cambridge Springs El Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Crawford County (around 79%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Cambridge Springs El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.7%, the actual is 56.4%, a residual of +3.7 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Crawford County put the typical household earns roughly $60,476 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Crawford County runs 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,156 students), of which Cambridge Springs El Sch is one.

Nearest neighbor: Cambridge Springs JSHS, around 0.1 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 7 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Cambridge Springs El Sch ranks 7th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 63.9%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Cambridge Springs El Sch's enrollment has fell 23% since 2018, when it stood at 456 (now 353).

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