Coudersport Area El Sch

As a small elementary school in Coudersport, Pennsylvania, Coudersport Area El Sch instructs 265 students from grades K through 6, operated by Coudersport Area SD. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Coudersport Area El Sch sits 40% below that benchmark.

Within Coudersport Area SD, which oversees 2 schools and 509 students, Coudersport Area El Sch is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Coudersport Area El Sch reports that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest breaks down as 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Potter County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, Coudersport Area El Sch reports 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. 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. Set against Potter County (around 90%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Coudersport Area El Sch sits in the top 10% of Pennsylvania schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 35.2%; actual is 64.4%, +29.2 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the surrounding community, census data for Potter County shows median household income runs about $59,020, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Potter County runs 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,705 students), of which Coudersport Area El Sch is one.

The closest other public school is Coudersport Area JSHS, roughly 1.0 miles away. On composite proficiency, Coudersport Area El Sch comes 2nd of 5 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 59.2%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 35%: 410 students in 2018 compared to 265 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 8.2:1 today.

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