Lyter El Sch

Located at 900 Spruce St, in Montoursville, Pennsylvania, Lyter El Sch is a mid-sized primary school that instructs 382 students (grades K through 4), part of Montoursville Area SD.

Across the 4 schools in Montoursville Area SD (1,679 students total), Lyter El Sch accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Lyter El Sch records that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 3% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Lycoming County as a whole.

On the resource side, Lyter El Sch logs 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.4:1. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 32% of students at Lyter El Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Lycoming County (around 60%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Lyter El Sch is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 63.9%; this one delivers 83.5%, a residual of +19.6 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Lycoming County indicate median household earnings sit near $63,917, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Lycoming County runs 30 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,288 students), of which Lyter El Sch is one.

Nearest neighbor: Montoursville Area SHS, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lyter El Sch. On composite proficiency, Lyter El Sch comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 49.3%.

Lyter El Sch operates from a residential location.

Looking at the recent track record. Lyter El Sch's enrollment has shrank 18% since 2018, when it stood at 464 (now 382). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 today.

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