Clarke El Ctr

Clarke El Ctr is one of the roomy elementary campuss in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, run under Pottsville Area SD, with 892 students on its rolls from grades K through 4. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Clarke El Ctr sits 101% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 3 schools in Pottsville Area SD (2,588 students total), Clarke El Ctr accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Clarke El Ctr logs that the largest single group is White, at 63% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school shows 23% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 6% Black. By comparison, Schuylkill County as a whole is about 88% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 68 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.1:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 70% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Clarke El Ctr performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.6%, the actual is 44.3%, a residual of -3.2 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Schuylkill County shows the typical household earns roughly $68,313 per year, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Schuylkill County runs 35 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,259 students), of which Clarke El Ctr is one.

The closest other public school is Pottsville Area HS, roughly 0.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Clarke El Ctr at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 40.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Over the past 7-year window. Clarke El Ctr's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 894 (now 892). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 83% to 63%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 today.

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