Clark El Sch

Clark El Sch operates as a small K-5 school in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Laurel Highlands SD. Current enrollment sits at 282 students spanning grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 36% below the state mean of about 443.

Laurel Highlands SD runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 2,647 students. Clark El Sch is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Clark El Sch reports that White students make up the majority at 74%. The remainder is composed of 12% Black, 9% multiracial, 2% Pacific Islander, 2% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 90% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 59% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Fayette County runs at roughly 92%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Clark El Sch tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 52.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 43.2%.

Across the wider county, census data for Fayette County shows the typical household earns roughly $58,236 per year, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across Fayette County's 39 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,340 students), Clark El Sch is one campus in the mix.

Laurel Highlands SHS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Clark El Sch. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Clark El Sch ranks 4th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 40.8%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Clark El Sch has shrank 7%, going from 304 students in 2018 to 282 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share ticked up from 7% to 12%.

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