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Ehrman Crest El Sch
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Ehrman Crest El Sch
Ehrman Crest El Sch, an expansive elementary school in Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania, run under Seneca Valley SD, caters to 837 students, covering grades K through 4. That puts it 89% larger than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 443 students.
Seneca Valley SD comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 7,439 students; Ehrman Crest El Sch is among them.
Demographically, Ehrman Crest El Sch lists that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 2% Asian.
On the income-and-resources front, Ehrman Crest El Sch reports 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. Around 18% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Butler County (around 37%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.
With demographic context factored in, Ehrman Crest El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.9%, the actual is 70.8%, a residual of +0.8 points.
Zooming out to the county, census data for Butler County shows the typical household earns roughly $89,843 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Ehrman Crest El Sch is one of 39 public schools in Butler County (combined enrollment of about 24,616 students).
The closest other public school is Ehrman Crest MS, roughly 0.0 miles away. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Ehrman Crest El Sch ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 66.0%.
Ehrman Crest El Sch operates from a countryside location.
Five-year trend. Ehrman Crest El Sch's enrollment has grew 46% since 2018, when it stood at 574 (now 837). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 92% to 88%.
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