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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the Maplewood El Sch administration to hear?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Enrollment
454
Elementary
DISTRICT 404 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PENNCREST SD·NCES 421874006137
Maplewood El Sch
32695 State Highway 408, Townville, PA 16360 · (814) 337-1659 · Crawford County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY43-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL454 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
13.7:1
33 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.4:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
47%
214 students
DISTRICT 50% · STATE 75%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
40.1%
PA avg 51.1% . -13.1pp since 2023
Math
42.2%
PA avg 43.0% . -1.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 42 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 13 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
Source: PSSA + Keystone. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
47.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.4%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Pennsylvania's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
454
-51 (-10%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
13.7:1
was 13.6:1
% White
94%
was 96%
% Hispanic
2%
was 1%
% Black
0%
was 0%
% Asian
0%
was 0%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About Maplewood El Sch
Maplewood El Sch is an average-sized elementary school in Townville, Pennsylvania, operated by Penncrest SD. The school educates 454 students in grades K through 6.
Penncrest SD comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 2,399 students; Maplewood El Sch is among them.
On the student-mix side, Maplewood El Sch logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (94%). Other groups include 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 47% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is south of Crawford County's rate of about 79%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Maplewood El Sch tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 57.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 47.0%.
In the area at large, Crawford County reports that median household earnings sit near $60,476, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Crawford County's 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,156 students), Maplewood El Sch is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Maplewood JSHS, around 3.1 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 2 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Maplewood El Sch comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 51.0%.
Maplewood El Sch operates from a low-density location.
Trend over the last 7 years. Maplewood El Sch's enrollment has declined 10% since 2018, when it stood at 505 (now 454).
On the community side, members of the Maplewood El Sch community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Crawford County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
82,716
Census ACS
Median income
$60,476
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
21%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
26
9,156 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Penncrest SD
- Maplewood JSHSHigh · 431 students
- Saegertown JSHSHigh · 411 students
- Saegertown El SchElementary · 405 students
- Cambridge Springs El SchElementary · 353 students
- Cambridge Springs JSHSHigh · 345 students
Nearby schools
- Maplewood JSHS3.1 mi · 431
- Hydetown Elementary School9.4 mi · 204
- Main Street Elementary School11.9 mi · 219
- Cambridge Springs El Sch11.9 mi · 353
- Cambridge Springs JSHS12.0 mi · 345
- Titusville High School12.2 mi · 565
Frequently asked questions
About Maplewood El SchWhat is the total enrollment at Maplewood El Sch?
Maplewood El Sch enrolls approximately 454 students in grades KG-06.
What age range does Maplewood El Sch serve?
Maplewood El Sch serves students from grade KG through grade 06.
How many students per teacher at Maplewood El Sch?
Approximately 13.7:1 students per teacher at Maplewood El Sch.
What is the student diversity at Maplewood El Sch?
Student demographics at Maplewood El Sch are roughly 94% White, 2% Hispanic, 0% Black, 4% Two or more.
What district is Maplewood El Sch in?
Maplewood El Sch is part of Penncrest SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.