J M Hill El Sch

Located at 151 E Broad St, in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, J M Hill El Sch is an average-sized K-5 school that teaches 471 students (grades K through 5), overseen by East Stroudsburg Area SD.

J M Hill El Sch is one of 10 schools operated by East Stroudsburg Area SD, a district that educates 6,353 students overall.

On the student-mix side, J M Hill El Sch reports that 35% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder is composed of 20% multiracial, 20% Black, 12% Native American, 10% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 64% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, J M Hill El Sch has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 51% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is lower than Monroe County's rate of about 74%.

With demographic context factored in, J M Hill El Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 55.9%; this one delivers 43.8%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Monroe County) records that median household earnings sit near $83,565, roughly 27% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Monroe County's 29 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,752 students), J M Hill El Sch is one campus in the mix.

East Stroudsburg SHS South is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around J M Hill El Sch. On composite proficiency, J M Hill El Sch comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 49.7%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 8%: 435 students in 2018 compared to 471 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment declined from 22% to 10% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 today.

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