Freedom Area El Sch

Freedom Area El Sch is a reasonably sized primary school in Freedom, Pennsylvania, operated by Freedom Area SD. The school caters to 426 students in grades K through 4.

Freedom Area SD comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,148 students; Freedom Area El Sch is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Freedom Area El Sch records that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 7% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Beaver County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, Freedom Area El Sch logs 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.4:1. The state averages about 13.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 56% of students at Freedom Area El Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Freedom Area El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.7%, the actual is 54.3%, a residual of +0.7 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Beaver County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $71,089 per year, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Freedom Area El Sch is one of 52 public schools in Beaver County (combined enrollment of about 31,222 students).

The closest other public school is Freedom Area MS, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Freedom Area El Sch. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Freedom Area El Sch ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 37.4%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 13%: 487 students in 2018 compared to 426 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 93% to 89% over that span.

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