Edison El Sch

Set in Erie, Pennsylvania, Edison El Sch is a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community, run under Erie City SD. It teaches 427 students across grades pre-K through 5.

Within Erie City SD, which oversees 15 schools and 10,473 students, Edison El Sch is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Edison El Sch logs that the largest single group is Black at 37%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 26% White, 23% multiracial, 8% Hispanic, 5% Asian. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 7%.

On the resource side, Edison El Sch shows 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Erie County's rate of about 74%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Edison El Sch falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 34.6%; this one comes in at 12.0%, -22.6 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Erie County) reports that median household earnings sit near $63,354, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Erie County's 68 public schools (combined enrollment of about 35,738 students), Edison El Sch is one campus in the mix.

Robert Benjamin Wiley Community CS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Edison El Sch ranks 7th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 28.8%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Five-year trend. Edison El Sch's enrollment has decreased 14% since 2018, when it stood at 495 (now 427). The Hispanic share of enrollment decreased from 26% to 8% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 14.3:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 in 2025.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.