McNichols Plaza

McNichols Plaza is a close-knit primary school in Scranton, Pennsylvania, overseen by Scranton SD. The school instructs 317 students in grades K through 4. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so McNichols Plaza sits 28% smaller than that benchmark.

Across the 15 schools in Scranton SD (9,165 students total), McNichols Plaza accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, McNichols Plaza shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (55%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 21% White, 11% Black, 7% Asian, 7% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 10%.

Looking at school resources, McNichols Plaza records 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 109% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Lackawanna County runs at roughly 72%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Lackawanna County put the typical household earns roughly $66,223 per year, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Lackawanna County's 47 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,006 students), McNichols Plaza is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: South Scranton Intrmd Sch, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

McNichols Plaza operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. McNichols Plaza's enrollment has ticked down 30% since 2018, when it stood at 456 (now 317). Over the same period, the White share shrank from 27% to 21%.

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