Chipperfield El Sch

Chipperfield El Sch is an elementary-level community of big scale in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, operated by Stroudsburg Area SD, teacheing 681 students in grades K through 4. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Chipperfield El Sch sits 54% above that benchmark.

Chipperfield El Sch is one of 7 schools operated by Stroudsburg Area SD, a district that hosts 4,361 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Chipperfield El Sch records that the most-represented group is White (47%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school logs 25% Hispanic, 23% Black, 3% Asian. By comparison, Monroe County as a whole is about 64% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 66 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Chipperfield El Sch tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 58% of students at Chipperfield El Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Monroe County's rate of about 74%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Chipperfield El Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 52.9%; this one delivers 56.2%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Monroe County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $83,565 per year, roughly 27% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Monroe County runs 29 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,752 students), of which Chipperfield El Sch is one.

Stroudsburg JHS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Chipperfield El Sch comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 48.6%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 20%: 856 students in 2018 compared to 681 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 today.

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