Cochranton El Sch

Located at 225 South Franklin Street, in Cochranton, Pennsylvania, Cochranton El Sch is an intimate K-5 school that serves 311 students (grades K through 6), one of the schools within Crawford Central SD. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 30% smaller than typical.

Cochranton El Sch is one of 8 schools operated by Crawford Central SD, a district that teaches 2,993 students overall.

Demographically, Cochranton El Sch lists that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school records 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Cochranton El Sch has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.6:1. The state averages about 13.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Crawford County's rate of about 79%.

After controlling for student poverty, Cochranton El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.1%, the actual is 46.4%, a residual of +11.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Crawford County indicate the typical household earns roughly $60,476 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Crawford County's 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,156 students), Cochranton El Sch is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Cochranton JSHS, around 1.1 miles off. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Cochranton El Sch comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 49.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Looking at the recent track record. Cochranton El Sch's enrollment has ticked down 23% since 2018, when it stood at 403 (now 311).

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