Margaret Ross El Sch

As a low-enrollment primary school in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, Margaret Ross El Sch teaches 185 students from grades K through 4, operated by Hopewell Area SD. Enrollment runs roughly 58% below the state mean of about 443.

Across the 5 schools in Hopewell Area SD (2,007 students total), Margaret Ross El Sch accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Margaret Ross El Sch shows that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school lists 6% multiracial, 4% Black, 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Margaret Ross El Sch has 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. Around 50% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Margaret Ross El Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 56.1%; this one delivers 67.9%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Beaver County indicate median household income runs about $71,089, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Beaver County runs 52 public schools (combined enrollment of about 31,222 students), of which Margaret Ross El Sch is one.

Hopewell JHS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Margaret Ross El Sch ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 37.8%.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 16%: 219 students in 2018 compared to 185 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked up from 81% to 87% over that span.

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