Kelly El Sch

Kelly El Sch is an elementary-level community of mid-sized scale in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, operated by Lewisburg Area SD, caters to 550 students in grades pre-K through 3. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Kelly El Sch sits 24% bigger than that benchmark.

Within Lewisburg Area SD, which oversees 4 schools and 1,809 students, Kelly El Sch is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Kelly El Sch shows that the largest single group is White, at 72% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school logs 12% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 4% Black, 3% Asian. By comparison, Union County as a whole is about 89% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 32% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Union County's rate of about 63%.

After controlling for student poverty, Kelly El Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 64.0%; this one delivers 69.6%.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Union County put median household earnings sit near $76,404, 27% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Union County's 10 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,811 students), Kelly El Sch is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Lewisburg HS, roughly 0.4 miles away. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Kelly El Sch comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 63.2%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Kelly El Sch has shrank 7%, going from 591 students in 2018 to 550 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 6% to 12% across the same window.

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