McKinley El Sch

Located at 933 E 22nd St, in Erie, Pennsylvania, McKinley El Sch is a reasonably sized K-5 school that enrolls 504 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under Erie City SD.

Erie City SD runs 15 schools in total, collectively educating 10,473 students. McKinley El Sch is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, McKinley El Sch logs that 44% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school shows 23% White, 17% multiracial, 8% Hispanic, 7% Asian. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 7%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 101% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Erie County (around 74%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, McKinley El Sch falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 34.1%; this one comes in at 11.5%, -22.6 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Erie County) reports that median household income runs about $63,354, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Erie County's 68 public schools (combined enrollment of about 35,738 students), McKinley El Sch is one campus in the mix.

Woodrow Wilson MS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around McKinley El Sch. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts McKinley El Sch at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 26.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 6%: 537 students in 2018 compared to 504 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked down from 18% to 8% over that span.

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