Dunmore El Ctr

Dunmore El Ctr, a high-enrollment elementary-level community in Dunmore, Pennsylvania, run under Dunmore SD, works with 824 students, covering grades K through 6. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Dunmore El Ctr sits 86% larger than that benchmark.

Dunmore El Ctr is one of 2 schools operated by Dunmore SD, a district that hosts 1,498 students overall.

Demographically, Dunmore El Ctr logs that 70% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder looks like 14% Hispanic, 11% Black, 4% Asian. By comparison, Lackawanna County as a whole is about 81% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Dunmore El Ctr has 61 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 96% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Lackawanna County's rate of about 72%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Dunmore El Ctr sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 36.5%; this one delivers 51.7%.

In the area at large, census data for Lackawanna County shows median household income runs about $66,223, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Lackawanna County's 47 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,006 students), Dunmore El Ctr is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Dunmore JSHS, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Dunmore El Ctr. On composite proficiency, Dunmore El Ctr comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 36.4%.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 5%: 787 students in 2018 compared to 824 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 78% to 70% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 in 2025.

On allk12, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.