Cornell El Sch

Located at 1099 Maple Street Ext, in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, Cornell El Sch is a compact primary school that hosts 289 students (grades K through 6), run under Cornell SD. That puts it 35% leaner than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 443 students.

Cornell SD comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 541 students; Cornell El Sch is among them.

On demographics, Cornell El Sch lists that the most-represented group is White (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 19% Hispanic, 18% multiracial, 13% Black. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 76%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Cornell El Sch tighter than the state norm the norm. About 102% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Allegheny County (around 54%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Cornell El Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 34.0%; this one delivers 42.0%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Allegheny County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $78,548 per year, roughly 46% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Cornell El Sch is one of 277 public schools in Allegheny County (combined enrollment of about 141,392 students).

Cornell HS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Cornell El Sch comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 67.2%.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 12%: 328 students in 2018 compared to 289 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 8% to 19% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 11.7:1 in 2018 to 9.7:1 in 2025.

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