Central El Sch

Central El Sch is a compact K-5 school in Franklin, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Franklin Area SD. The school enrolls 342 students in grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 23% leaner than the state mean of about 443.

Franklin Area SD runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,748 students. Central El Sch is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Central El Sch reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (83%). The remainder reads as 11% multiracial, 3% Black, 3% Hispanic. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 94%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. An estimated 116% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Venango County runs at roughly 90%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Venango County indicate median household income runs about $61,522, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Venango County's 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,704 students), Central El Sch is one campus in the mix.

Rocky Grove JSHS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Central El Sch.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Central El Sch's enrollment has declined 27% since 2018, when it stood at 466 (now 342). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. The community welcomes input from current and former families.