Fort Cherry El Ctr

As a moderately sized elementary school in Mc Donald, Pennsylvania, Fort Cherry El Ctr serves 455 students from grades K through 6, overseen by Fort Cherry SD.

Within Fort Cherry SD, which oversees 2 schools and 912 students, Fort Cherry El Ctr is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Fort Cherry El Ctr lists that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 7% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.1:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Fort Cherry El Ctr tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 51% of students at Fort Cherry El Ctr qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Fort Cherry El Ctr performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.6%, the actual is 68.2%, a residual of +12.6 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Washington County put median household income runs about $78,958, roughly 33% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Washington County's 56 public schools (combined enrollment of about 26,079 students), Fort Cherry El Ctr is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Fort Cherry JSHS, roughly 0.1 miles away. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Fort Cherry El Ctr comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 74.4%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 15%: 534 students in 2018 compared to 455 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 today.

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