Charles Sumner #18

Charles Sumner #18 is a small elementary campus in Scranton, Pennsylvania, operated by Scranton SD. The school educates 250 students in grades pre-K through 4. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Charles Sumner #18 sits 44% below that benchmark.

Across the 15 schools in Scranton SD (9,165 students total), Charles Sumner #18 accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Charles Sumner #18 logs that 50% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest breaks down as 30% White, 12% Black, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Lackawanna County as a whole is about 10% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Lackawanna County's rate of about 72%.

With demographic context factored in, Charles Sumner #18 performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.3%, the actual is 37.8%, a residual of +2.5 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Lackawanna County put median household income runs about $66,223, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Lackawanna County runs 47 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,006 students), of which Charles Sumner #18 is one.

The closest other public school is Scranton HS, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Charles Sumner #18 ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 34.2%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 21%: 315 students in 2018 compared to 250 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 26% to 50% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 17.2:1 in 2025.

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