Donegal El Sch

Located at 138 Schoolhouse Lane, in Jones Mills, Pennsylvania, Donegal El Sch is an one-room-style K-5 school that hosts 92 students (grades K through 3), overseen by Mount Pleasant Area SD. That puts it 79% leaner than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 443 students.

Mount Pleasant Area SD runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 1,832 students. Donegal El Sch is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Donegal El Sch lists that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 7% multiracial, 2% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Donegal El Sch tighter than the state norm the norm. About 67% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Westmoreland County runs at roughly 53%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Donegal El Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.7%; this one delivers 55.6%.

In the area at large, Westmoreland County reports that the typical household earns roughly $74,109 per year, roughly 33% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Westmoreland County's 85 public schools (combined enrollment of about 41,302 students), Donegal El Sch is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Springfield El Sch, roughly 8.4 miles away. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Donegal El Sch at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 52.7%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 54%: 200 students in 2018 compared to 92 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 100% to 89% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 in 2025.

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