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What's one thing Memorial El Sch gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
405
Elementary
DISTRICT 250 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BLOOMSBURG AREA SD·NCES 420384001606
Memorial Elementary School
500 Market St, Bloomsburg, PA 17815 · (570) 784-7885 · Columbia County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL405 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 68% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Pennsylvania public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
11.1:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.0:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
67%
271 students
DISTRICT 47% · 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, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 55 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 65 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 62 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 93 | 23% |
| Grade 4 | 54 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 76 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (55) is 28% smaller than its 5th grade class (76).
Student demographics
42%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 33% · STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within Bloomsburg Area SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
47.8%
PA avg 51.1% . -13.6pp since 2023
Math
57.1%
PA avg 43.0% . -6.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 57 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 14 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 7 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 47.8% | 57.1% |
| 2023-24 | 61.4% | 64.0% |
% Proficient or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
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
60.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.9%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+11.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 60% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% 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 →
Schools most like Memorial Elementary School
Memorial Elementary School's state test result (60.4% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memorial Elementary School this school | 405 | 66.9% | 60.4% |
| Paradise Elementary School Paradise | 382 | 63.6% | 51.6% |
| Hepburn-Lycoming Primary School Cogan Station | 402 | 62.7% | 63.4% |
| Penn Valley Elementary School Levittown | 356 | 61.5% | 50.3% |
| Hillside Elementary School New Cumberland | 408 | 66.7% | 51.9% |
| Conrad Weiser West Elementary School Womelsdorf | 415 | 60.0% | 46.1% |
Matched among Pennsylvania elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Memorial Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Columbia County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 60.4% | #579 of 1,396 | #5 of 7 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 57.1% | #615 of 1,511 ▼ 237 | #4 of 7 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 47.8% | #799 of 1,511 ▼ 213 | #6 of 7 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 405 | #859 of 1,638 | #4 of 8 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.1:1 | #214 of 1,528 | #2 of 7 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 42.3% | #707 of 1,531 | #1 of 7 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 66.9% | #747 of 1,600 | #3 of 7 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.6% | #905 of 1,045 | N/A |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
405
-16 (-4%) vs 2020
-20% since 1990-91, when it was 504
Student : Teacher
11.1:1
was 11.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 405 | 36.5 | 11.1:1 | 67% (271) |
| 2023-24 | 413 | 38.5 | 10.7:1 | 66% (271) |
| 2022-23 | 432 | 37.8 | 11.4:1 | 63% (270) |
| 2020-21 | 421 | 36 | 11.7:1 | 53% (225) |
| 2017-18 | 420 | 36.1 | 11.6:1 | 58% (243) |
| 2015-16 | 436 | 36 | 12.1:1 | 60% (260) |
| 2010-11 | 495 | 35 | 14.1:1 | 62% (305) |
| 2000-01 | 510 | 33 | 15.4:1 | 44% (224) |
| 1990-91 | 504 | 28 | 18.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Memorial Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 4% (420 to 405); teachers up 1% (36.1 to 36.5).
About Memorial Elementary School
Memorial Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school based in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. Federal data show 405 students enrolled in kindergarten through 5 in 2024-25.
Besides Memorial Elementary School, Bloomsburg Area SD runs 4 other schools. The district enrolls 1,492 students.
The largest group at Memorial Elementary School is White students, at 74%. Other groups make up 14% Hispanic, 6% Black, and 6% multiracial. County-wide, 91% of Columbia County residents are White. A diversity index of 42% means there is a 42% chance two randomly chosen students at Memorial Elementary School are from different groups.
Its ratio of 11.1:1 is based on 36.5 full-time-equivalent teachers. Elementary schools in Pennsylvania average 13.1:1, 2.0 more students per teacher than here. The share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 67%. Public schools in Columbia County average 56%.
Memorial Elementary School holds a B+ allk12 Grade, placing it above 68% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools.
In Pennsylvania, Memorial Elementary School is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 60.4% actual against a predicted 48.9%.
Census data for Columbia County show median household income comes to about $64,644, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 27%, and about 8% of people live in poverty. There are 20 public schools in the county, enrolling about 7,501, Memorial Elementary School among them.
A public school about 0.6 miles away, Bloomsburg Area Middle School, is the closest to Memorial Elementary School. Memorial Elementary School has 5 other public schools within five miles. Memorial Elementary School comes in 6th of 9 nearby schools on average proficiency.
The school is in a town some distance from an urbanized area, according to its NCES locale (Town: Distant).
Over 4 years, enrollment decreased by 16 students, from 421 to 405.
This page is set up for the Memorial Elementary School community to discuss open houses, carpools, and field trips. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Columbia County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
65,362
Census ACS
Median income
$64,644
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
27%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
20
7,501 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Bloomsburg Area SD
- Bloomsburg Area Middle SchoolMiddle · 380 students
- Bloomsburg Area High SchoolHigh · 362 students
- W W Evans Memorial Elementary SchoolElementary · 250 students
- Beaver-Main Elementary SchoolElementary · 95 students
Other schools in Bloomsburg
- Central Columbia Elementary SchoolElementary · 705 students
- Columbia-Montour Area Vocational-Technical SchoolHigh · 609 students
- Central Columbia SHSHigh · 601 students
- Central Columbia Middle SchoolMiddle · 587 students
- Bloomsburg Area Middle SchoolMiddle · 380 students
- Bloomsburg Area High SchoolHigh · 362 students
Other Memorial Elementary schools
21 other US public schools in 10 states are named Memorial Elementary. Memorial Elementary School is the 12th largest of the 22.
- Memorial Elementary SchoolWESLACO, TX · 1,109 students
- MEMORIAL ELEMENTARY SCHOOLARCADIA, FL · 861 students
- Memorial Elementary SchoolMcMinnville, OR · 557 students
- Memorial Elementary SchoolMontvale, NJ · 532 students
- Memorial Elementary SchoolHOUSTON, TX · 474 students
Nearby schools
- Bloomsburg Area Middle School0.6 mi · 380
- Bloomsburg Area High School0.6 mi · 362
- W W Evans Memorial Elementary School1.3 mi · 250
- Central Columbia Middle School4.9 mi · 587
- Central Columbia SHS4.9 mi · 601
- Columbia-Montour Area Vocational-Technical School5.3 mi · 609
Frequently asked questions
About Memorial Elementary SchoolHow large is Memorial Elementary School?
Memorial Elementary School enrolls approximately 405 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Memorial Elementary School serve?
Memorial Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Memorial Elementary School?
Approximately 11.1:1 students per teacher at Memorial Elementary School.
How diverse is Memorial Elementary School?
Memorial Elementary School reports a student body of 74% White, 14% Hispanic, 6% Black, 1% Asian, 6% Two or more.
Who oversees Memorial Elementary School?
Memorial Elementary School is overseen by Bloomsburg Area SD in Columbia County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.