Lathrop Street El Sch

Lathrop Street El Sch, a mid-tier elementary campus in Montrose, Pennsylvania, overseen by Montrose Area SD, works with 401 students, covering grades K through 6.

Montrose Area SD runs 3 schools in total, collectively educating 1,217 students. Lathrop Street El Sch is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Lathrop Street El Sch shows that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 9% Hispanic.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.0:1. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 94% of students at Lathrop Street El Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Susquehanna County's rate of about 78%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Lathrop Street El Sch 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 37.4%; Lathrop Street El Sch posts 55.2%, +17.8 points above that line.

Across the wider county, Susquehanna County reports that the typical household earns roughly $68,487 per year, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Susquehanna County runs 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,728 students), of which Lathrop Street El Sch is one.

The closest other public school is Montrose Area JSHS, roughly 1.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Lathrop Street El Sch comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 48.0%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Lathrop Street El Sch's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 395 (now 401). Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 2% to 9%.

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