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.