Mohawk El Sch

Mohawk El Sch operates as a large K-5 school in New Castle, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Mohawk Area SD. Current enrollment sits at 709 students spanning grades K through 5. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Mohawk El Sch sits 60% bigger than that benchmark.

Mohawk El Sch is one of 3 schools operated by Mohawk Area SD, a district that teaches 1,444 students overall.

On demographics, Mohawk El Sch records that nearly all students (94%) are White. Beyond that, the school logs 4% multiracial.

On the resource side, On paper, Mohawk El Sch has 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.8:1. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 36% of students at Mohawk El Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Lawrence County runs at roughly 67%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Mohawk El Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 62.1%; this one delivers 66.7%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Lawrence County) shows that median household earnings sit near $61,931, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Lawrence County's 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,015 students), Mohawk El Sch is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Mohawk JHS, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 5 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Mohawk El Sch comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 62.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mohawk El Sch has contracted 15%, going from 835 students in 2018 to 709 in 2025.

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