Jackson Primary Sch

Jackson Primary Sch is a mid-sized elementary school in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, part of Williamsport Area SD. The school educates 555 students in grades K through 3. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Jackson Primary Sch sits 25% larger than that benchmark.

Williamsport Area SD comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 4,731 students; Jackson Primary Sch is among them.

Looking at the student body, Jackson Primary Sch records that the largest single group is White at 46%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 24% multiracial, 17% Black, 12% Hispanic. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 89%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.3:1. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 83% of students at Jackson Primary Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Lycoming County runs at roughly 60%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Jackson Primary Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.1%, the actual is 53.3%, a residual of +11.2 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Lycoming County shows median household earnings sit near $63,917, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Jackson Primary Sch is one of 30 public schools in Lycoming County (combined enrollment of about 14,288 students).

Williamsport Area MS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Jackson Primary Sch ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 43.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Looking at the recent track record. Jackson Primary Sch's enrollment has ticked up 18% since 2018, when it stood at 472 (now 555). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 62% to 46%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 today.

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