Mahanoy Area El Sch

Located at 1 Golden Bear Dr, in Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania, Mahanoy Area El Sch is a middle-of-the-pack primary school that enrolls 589 students (grades K through 6), part of Mahanoy Area SD. Enrollment runs roughly 33% bigger than the state mean of about 443.

Across the 2 schools in Mahanoy Area SD (1,132 students total), Mahanoy Area El Sch accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Mahanoy Area El Sch shows that the most-represented group is White (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 46% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 2% Black. The wider county runs roughly 88% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Mahanoy Area El Sch tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 99% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Schuylkill County (around 66%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Mahanoy Area El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.0%, the actual is 24.4%, a residual of -10.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Schuylkill County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $68,313 per year, roughly 20% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Schuylkill County runs 35 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,259 students), of which Mahanoy Area El Sch is one.

Mahanoy Area JSHS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Mahanoy Area El Sch. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mahanoy Area El Sch ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 32.5%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 4%: 567 students in 2018 compared to 589 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 16% to 46% over that span.

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