Lenape El Sch

Lenape El Sch operates as a sizable primary school in Ford City, Pennsylvania, overseen by Armstrong SD. Current enrollment sits at 691 students spanning grades K through 6. That puts it 56% larger than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 443 students.

Armstrong SD comprises 8 schools with combined enrollment of 4,240 students; Lenape El Sch is among them.

Looking at the student body, Lenape El Sch reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (95%). That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.1:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. Roughly 101% of students at Lenape El Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Armstrong County (around 90%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Lenape El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.4%, the actual is 46.0%, a residual of +11.6 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Armstrong County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $65,008 per year, 19% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Lenape El Sch is one of 17 public schools in Armstrong County (combined enrollment of about 6,972 students).

Nearest neighbor: Lenape Technical School, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Lenape El Sch. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Lenape El Sch at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 57.9%.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lenape El Sch has shrank 14%, going from 808 students in 2018 to 691 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 today.

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