Don Gill El Sch

Don Gill El Sch operates as a modestly sized primary school in Wellsboro, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Wellsboro Area SD. Current enrollment sits at 287 students spanning grades 2 through 4. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Don Gill El Sch sits 35% leaner than that benchmark.

Wellsboro Area SD comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,372 students; Don Gill El Sch is among them.

On demographics, Don Gill El Sch shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%); the rest comes out to 6% multiracial.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Don Gill El Sch records 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. About 59% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Tioga County runs at roughly 73%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Don Gill El Sch tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 52.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 63.0%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Tioga County indicate median household earnings sit near $64,899, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Tioga County's 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,053 students), Don Gill El Sch is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Charlotte Lappla El Sch, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Don Gill El Sch comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 47.5%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Over the past 7-year window. Don Gill El Sch's enrollment has contracted 19% since 2018, when it stood at 356 (now 287). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 today.

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