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Greenville El Sch
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Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedWhat this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 49 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Pennsylvania's top nor bottom 10%.
About Greenville El Sch
Set in Greenville, Pennsylvania, Greenville El Sch is a moderately sized elementary campus, operated by Greenville Area SD. It enrolls 626 students across grades K through 6. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 41% above typical.
Greenville Area SD runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 1,236 students. Greenville El Sch is one of those campuses.
On demographics, Greenville El Sch records that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 3% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Mercer County as a whole.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 62% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Mercer County runs at roughly 71%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Greenville El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.0%, the actual is 55.1%, a residual of +4.1 points.
Zooming out to the county, Mercer County reports that the typical household earns roughly $59,976 per year, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Greenville El Sch is one of 37 public schools in Mercer County (combined enrollment of about 12,815 students).
Nearest neighbor: Greenville JSHS, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Greenville El Sch at 2nd of 7; the average score across the group is 42.0%.
The campus sits in a small-town setting.
On this page, members of the Greenville El Sch community share and discuss pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.
Mercer County at a glance
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