Fannett-Metal El Sch

Fannett-Metal El Sch, a tiny elementary-level community in Willow Hill, Pennsylvania, run under Fannett-Metal SD, works with 175 students, covering grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 60% leaner than the state mean of about 443.

Within Fannett-Metal SD, which oversees 3 schools and 369 students, Fannett-Metal El Sch is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Fannett-Metal El Sch lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (92%). Other groups include 4% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, Fannett-Metal El Sch shows 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. An estimated 104% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Franklin County's rate of about 69%.

With demographic context factored in, Fannett-Metal El Sch ranks in the top 10% of Pennsylvania public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 33.0%; Fannett-Metal El Sch posts 71.3%, +38.3 points above that line.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Franklin County) logs that median household earnings sit near $77,003, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Franklin County's 41 public schools (combined enrollment of about 21,432 students), Fannett-Metal El Sch is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Fannett-Metal MS, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Fannett-Metal El Sch comes 1st of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 50.5%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Five-year trend. Fannett-Metal El Sch's enrollment has ticked down 17% since 2018, when it stood at 210 (now 175). The White share of enrollment fell from 96% to 92% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 11.5:1 in 2018 to 9.4:1 in 2025.

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