Carbondale El Sch

Carbondale El Sch is an elementary-level community of expansive scale in Carbondale, Pennsylvania, run under Carbondale Area SD, works with 755 students in grades pre-K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 70% above typical.

Within Carbondale Area SD, which oversees 2 schools and 1,491 students, Carbondale El Sch is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Carbondale El Sch records that 66% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 20% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 6% Black. By comparison, Lackawanna County as a whole is about 81% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Carbondale El Sch shows 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 75% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Carbondale El Sch falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 45.6%; this one comes in at 27.5%, -18.1 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, census data for Lackawanna County shows the typical household earns roughly $66,223 per year, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Lackawanna County's 47 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,006 students), Carbondale El Sch is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Carbondale Area JSHS, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Carbondale El Sch. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Carbondale El Sch at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 48.5%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Carbondale El Sch has declined 15%, going from 887 students in 2018 to 755 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 81% to 66% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 today.

On this page, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.