East Stroudsburg El Sch

As an average-sized K-5 school in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, East Stroudsburg El Sch caters to 603 students from grades K through 5, one of the schools within East Stroudsburg Area SD. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so East Stroudsburg El Sch sits 36% bigger than that benchmark.

East Stroudsburg El Sch is one of 10 schools operated by East Stroudsburg Area SD, a district that enrolls 6,353 students overall.

Demographically, East Stroudsburg El Sch reports that the largest single group is White at 50%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 21% Black, 13% multiracial, 8% Native American, 8% Hispanic. By comparison, Monroe County as a whole is about 64% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, East Stroudsburg El Sch has 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.9:1. The state averages about 13.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 48% of students at East Stroudsburg El Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Monroe County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, East Stroudsburg El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.0%, the actual is 56.8%, a residual of -0.2 points.

Around the school, census data for Monroe County shows the typical household earns roughly $83,565 per year, roughly 27% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. East Stroudsburg El Sch is one of 29 public schools in Monroe County (combined enrollment of about 20,752 students).

Nearest neighbor: J T Lambert Intermediate Sch, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, East Stroudsburg El Sch comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 47.5%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 8%: 657 students in 2018 compared to 603 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 24% to 8% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 today.

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