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Enrollment
603
Elementary
DISTRICT 438 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EAST STROUDSBURG AREA SD·NCES 420867006798
East Stroudsburg Elementary School
93 Independence Rd, East Stroudsburg, PA 18301 · (570) 421-1905 · Monroe County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL603 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 45% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Pennsylvania public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
12.9:1
47 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.4:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
48%
290 students
DISTRICT 52% · STATE 75%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 87 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 91 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 99 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 98 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 110 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 118 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (87) is 26% smaller than its 5th grade class (118).
Student demographics
68%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 75% · STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
53.0%
PA avg 51.1% . -6.2pp since 2023
Math
48.7%
PA avg 43.0% . -0.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 49 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 6 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 53.0% | 48.7% |
| 2023-24 | 59.2% | 48.8% |
% Proficient or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: PSSA + Keystone. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
56.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.0%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 57% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Pennsylvania's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like East Stroudsburg Elementary School
East Stroudsburg Elementary School's state test result (56.8% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Stroudsburg Elementary School this school | 603 | 48.1% | 56.8% |
| Green Woods CS Philadelphia | 699 | 39.9% | 58.0% |
| J M Hill Elementary School East Stroudsburg | 471 | 50.7% | 43.8% |
| Ore Valley Elementary School York | 556 | 44.6% | 57.1% |
| Norwood School Norwood | 557 | 51.2% | 44.1% |
| Charleroi Area El Center Charleroi | 621 | 60.5% | 52.4% |
Matched among Pennsylvania elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where East Stroudsburg Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Monroe County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 56.8% | #686 of 1,396 | #3 of 12 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 48.7% | #826 of 1,511 ▼ 39 | #8 of 13 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 53.0% | #645 of 1,511 ▲ 4 | #3 of 13 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 603 | #262 of 1,638 | #7 of 15 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.9:1 | #743 of 1,528 | #15 of 15 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.0% | #136 of 1,531 | #7 of 15 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 48.1% | #1,030 of 1,600 | #11 of 13 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.2% | #730 of 1,045 | #11 of 13 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
603
-7 (-1%) vs 2020
+118% since 1990-91, when it was 276
Student : Teacher
12.9:1
was 14.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 603 | 46.6 | 12.9:1 | 48% (290) |
| 2023-24 | 593 | 45.4 | 13.1:1 | 49% (290) |
| 2022-23 | 605 | 43.6 | 13.9:1 | 58% (351) |
| 2020-21 | 610 | 41 | 14.9:1 | 50% (305) |
| 2017-18 | 657 | 40 | 16.4:1 | 49% (320) |
| 2015-16 | 598 | 45 | 13.3:1 | 49% (291) |
| 2010-11 | 791 | 53 | 14.9:1 | 41% (327) |
| 2000-01 | 133 | 11 | 12.1:1 | 26% (35) |
| 1990-91 | 276 | 13 | 21.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for East Stroudsburg Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 8% (657 to 603); teachers up 17% (40 to 46.6).
About East Stroudsburg Elementary School
East Stroudsburg Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, under East Stroudsburg Area SD. It enrolls 603 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are kindergarten through 5. That puts enrollment 36% above the 443-student average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania.
The district for East Stroudsburg Elementary School is East Stroudsburg Area SD, with 10 schools and 6,353 students.
About 50% of students at East Stroudsburg Elementary School are White, the largest single group. The rest of enrollment is 21% Black, 13% multiracial, 8% Native American, and 8% Hispanic. Among all residents of Monroe County, the White share is about 64%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 68%.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 12.9:1. The school has 46.6 full-time-equivalent teachers. It is about the same as the 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania. Federal data show 48% of students (290) are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is 26 points below the 74% average for public schools in Monroe County.
East Stroudsburg Elementary School holds a B- allk12 Grade, placing it above 45% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools.
East Stroudsburg Elementary School is within a point of its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results (56.8% versus 57.0%), which places it in neither the top nor the bottom 10% in Pennsylvania.
In Monroe County, the median household earns about $83,565 a year, about 27% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 9%. Across Monroe County, 29 public schools serve about 20,752 students.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, J T Lambert Intermediate School, is about 0.5 miles. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Among the 9 closest schools with test data, this one included, East Stroudsburg Elementary School ranks 3rd on average proficiency.
Locale: Rural: Fringe. In NCES terms, the school is in rural territory close to an urban area.
Compared with 2020-21, when it had 610 students, enrollment in 2024-25 was about the same at 603. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (12.9:1) than in 2020-21 (14.9:1).
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Monroe County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
167,515
Census ACS
Median income
$83,565
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
27%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
29
20,752 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in East Stroudsburg Area SD
- East Stroudsburg SHS SouthHigh · 1,359 students
- East Stroudsburg SHS NorthHigh · 917 students
- J T Lambert Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 907 students
- Lehman Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 540 students
- J M Hill Elementary SchoolElementary · 471 students
- Middle Smithfield Elementary SchoolElementary · 420 students
Other schools in East Stroudsburg
- East Stroudsburg SHS SouthHigh · 1,359 students
- J T Lambert Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 907 students
- J M Hill Elementary SchoolElementary · 471 students
- Middle Smithfield Elementary SchoolElementary · 420 students
- Resica Elementary SchoolElementary · 404 students
- Smithfield Elementary SchoolElementary · 327 students
Nearby schools
- J T Lambert Intermediate School0.5 mi · 907
- J M Hill Elementary School0.9 mi · 471
- East Stroudsburg SHS South1.1 mi · 1,359
- Smithfield Elementary School2.0 mi · 327
- Middle Smithfield Elementary School2.1 mi · 420
- B F Morey Elementary School2.8 mi · 228
Frequently asked questions
About East Stroudsburg Elementary SchoolHow many students attend East Stroudsburg Elementary School?
East Stroudsburg Elementary School enrolls approximately 603 students in grades KG-05.
Is East Stroudsburg Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
East Stroudsburg Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at East Stroudsburg Elementary School?
Approximately 12.9:1 students per teacher at East Stroudsburg Elementary School.
How diverse is East Stroudsburg Elementary School?
East Stroudsburg Elementary School reports a student body of 50% White, 8% Hispanic, 21% Black, 1% Asian, 13% Two or more.
Who oversees East Stroudsburg Elementary School?
East Stroudsburg Elementary School is overseen by East Stroudsburg Area SD in Monroe County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.