Claysville El Sch

Claysville El Sch is an elementary campus of middle-of-the-pack scale in Claysville, Pennsylvania, overseen by McGuffey SD, teacheing 478 students in grades K through 5.

Across the 4 schools in McGuffey SD (1,513 students total), Claysville El Sch accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Claysville El Sch shows that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 3% multiracial.

On the resource side, The school lists 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.6:1. The state averages about 13.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 52% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Claysville El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.2%, the actual is 56.0%, a residual of +0.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Washington County put the typical household earns roughly $78,958 per year, about 33% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Washington County runs 56 public schools (combined enrollment of about 26,079 students), of which Claysville El Sch is one.

Nearest neighbor: McGuffey HS, around 3.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Claysville El Sch. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Claysville El Sch ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 56.2%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 489 students in 2018 compared to 478 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 in 2025.

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