Hydetown Elementary School

Hydetown Elementary School is an elementary school of compact scale in Titusville, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Titusville Area SD, enrolling 204 students in grades 1 through 5. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 54% smaller than typical.

Titusville Area SD comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 1,802 students; Hydetown Elementary School is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Hydetown Elementary School logs that nearly all students (96%) are White. The remainder comes out to 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.7:1. The state averages about 13.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 65% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Crawford County (around 79%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Hydetown Elementary School 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 49.7%; Hydetown Elementary School posts 69.4%, +19.7 points above that line.

Around the school, Crawford County reports that median household earnings sit near $60,476, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Crawford County runs 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,156 students), of which Hydetown Elementary School is one.

Main Street Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.6 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hydetown Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 48.7%.

Hydetown Elementary School operates from a rural location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Hydetown Elementary School has fell 11%, going from 229 students in 2018 to 204 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.8:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 today.

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