Clarks Summit El Sch

Clarks Summit El Sch is a mid-sized elementary-level community in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Abington Heights SD. The school enrolls 399 students in grades K through 4.

Clarks Summit El Sch is one of 6 schools operated by Abington Heights SD, a district that caters to 3,391 students overall.

Demographically, Clarks Summit El Sch reports that 79% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school logs 8% Asian, 6% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 2% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.3:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 6% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Lackawanna County runs at roughly 72%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Clarks Summit El Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 75.1%; this one delivers 67.1%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Lackawanna County indicate 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. Across Lackawanna County's 47 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,006 students), Clarks Summit El Sch is one campus in the mix.

Abington Heights HS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Clarks Summit El Sch comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 61.0%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 17%: 341 students in 2018 compared to 399 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Members of the school community can share what they know.