Enrollment
214
Elementary
DISTRICT 343 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SCRANTON SD·NCES 422109002455
John Adams #4
927 Capouse Ave, Scranton, PA 18509 · (570) 348-3655 · Lackawanna County
GRADES KG–04ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL214 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 12% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Pennsylvania public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
11.4:1
19 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.0:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
91%
194 students
DISTRICT 101% · STATE 75%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 49 | 23% |
| Grade 1 | 47 | 22% |
| Grade 2 | 41 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 36 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 41 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (49) is 20% larger than its 4th grade class (41).
Student demographics
75%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
25.8%
PA avg 51.1% . -5.2pp since 2023
Math
12.9%
PA avg 43.0% . -2.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 26 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 13 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 25.8% | 12.9% |
| 2023-24 | 31.0% | 15.5% |
% Proficient or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: PSSA + Keystone. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
23.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
38.7%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-15.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 23% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 39% 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%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like John Adams #4
John Adams #4's state test result (23.4% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Adams #4 this school | 214 | 90.7% | 23.4% |
| Pittsburgh Beechwood K-5 Pittsburgh | 360 | 93.9% | 42.9% |
| Richard J. Hyde Elementary School Moon Township | 237 | 90.7% | 61.7% |
| Vare-Washington Elementary School Philadelphia | 375 | 87.7% | 40.8% |
| Crossan Kennedy C School Philadelphia | 327 | 97.2% | 33.2% |
| Paxtang Elementary School Harrisburg | 281 | 99.6% | 42.6% |
Matched among Pennsylvania elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where John Adams #4 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Lackawanna County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 23.4% | #1,257 of 1,396 | #24 of 24 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 12.9% | #1,376 of 1,511 ▼ 57 | #26 of 26 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 25.8% | #1,267 of 1,511 ▼ 9 | #22 of 26 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 214 | #1,505 of 1,638 | #25 of 28 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.4:1 | #276 of 1,528 | #2 of 25 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 75.4% | #17 of 1,531 | #2 of 27 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 90.7% | #653 of 1,600 | #14 of 28 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -38.7% | #40 of 1,045 | #1 of 20 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
214
-36 (-14%) vs 2020
+30% since 1990-91, when it was 164
Student : Teacher
11.4:1
was 11.9:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 214 | 18.8 | 11.4:1 | 91% (194) |
| 2023-24 | 195 | 17.8 | 10.9:1 | 99% (194) |
| 2022-23 | 185 | 16.8 | 11.0:1 | 100% (185) |
| 2020-21 | 250 | 21 | 11.9:1 | 99% (247) |
| 2017-18 | 349 | 24.7 | 14.1:1 | 72% (251) |
| 2015-16 | 288 | 20 | 14.4:1 | 86% (247) |
| 2010-11 | 204 | 15 | 13.6:1 | 78% (159) |
| 2000-01 | 203 | 17 | 11.9:1 | 84% (170) |
| 1990-91 | 164 | 12 | 13.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for John Adams #4.
Since 2017-18: students down 39% (349 to 214); teachers down 24% (24.7 to 18.8).
About John Adams #4
John Adams #4 is a small elementary school in Pennsylvania, located in Scranton. The school runs kindergarten through 4 and enrolls 214 students. Elementary schools in Pennsylvania average about 443 students, which makes this school 52% below average.
The district, Scranton SD, has 9,165 students enrolled across 15 schools.
The largest group at John Adams #4 is Hispanic students, at 36%. The school is also 22% Black, 21% White, 11% multiracial, and 10% Asian. That is higher than the 10% Hispanic share among all Lackawanna County residents. The diversity index for John Adams #4 is 75%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
There are about 11.4 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at John Adams #4, which has 18.8. Elementary schools in Pennsylvania average 13.1:1, 1.7 more students per teacher than here. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at John Adams #4 is about 91%. That rate is above the 72% average among public schools in Lackawanna County.
On the allk12 Grade, John Adams #4 lands at D, ahead of 12% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, John Adams #4 is 15.4 points below the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 23.4% actual, 38.7% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Pennsylvania.
For Lackawanna County, Census Bureau data show median household income comes to about $66,223, about 31% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 10%. The county has 47 public schools and about 27,006 students.
Northeast Intrmd School, about 0.4 miles away, is the closest public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. By average proficiency, John Adams #4 is 7th among 8 schools close by.
The school is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000, according to its NCES locale (City: Small).
From 250 students in 2020-21, enrollment fell to 214 by 2024-25.
Parents, students, and staff can share information on pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback here. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Lackawanna County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
216,146
Census ACS
Median income
$66,223
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
31%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
47
27,006 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Scranton SD
- Scranton High SchoolHigh · 1,815 students
- West Scranton High SchoolHigh · 1,404 students
- Northeast Intrmd SchoolMiddle · 894 students
- West Scranton Intrmd SchoolMiddle · 820 students
- South Scranton Intrmd SchoolMiddle · 798 students
- Isaac Tripp Elementary SchoolElementary · 710 students
Other schools in Scranton
- Scranton High SchoolHigh · 1,815 students
- West Scranton High SchoolHigh · 1,404 students
- Northeast Intrmd SchoolMiddle · 894 students
- West Scranton Intrmd SchoolMiddle · 820 students
- South Scranton Intrmd SchoolMiddle · 798 students
- Isaac Tripp Elementary SchoolElementary · 710 students
Nearby schools
- Northeast Intrmd School0.4 mi · 894
- Scranton High School0.6 mi · 1,815
- Robert Morris #271.1 mi · 206
- William Prescott #381.1 mi · 204
- Neil Armstrong #401.1 mi · 441
- Charles Sumner #181.2 mi · 250
Frequently asked questions
About John Adams #4How large is John Adams #4?
John Adams #4 enrolls approximately 214 students in grades KG-04.
What grades does John Adams #4 serve?
John Adams #4 serves grades KG-04.
How many students per teacher at John Adams #4?
Approximately 11.4:1 students per teacher at John Adams #4.
What is the student diversity at John Adams #4?
Student demographics at John Adams #4 are roughly 21% White, 36% Hispanic, 22% Black, 10% Asian, 11% Two or more.
Who oversees John Adams #4?
John Adams #4 is overseen by Scranton SD in Lackawanna County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.