Mountain View El Sch

Located at 2311 Lemar Rd, in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, Mountain View El Sch is a close-knit elementary school that educates 185 students (grades K through 5), operated by Tuscarora SD. That puts it 58% below the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 443 students.

Tuscarora SD comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 2,182 students; Mountain View El Sch is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Mountain View El Sch records that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 7% multiracial, 3% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.6:1. The state averages about 13.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 104% of students at Mountain View El Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Franklin County's rate of about 69%.

With demographic context factored in, Mountain View El Sch ranks in the top 10% of Pennsylvania public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 32.9%; Mountain View El Sch posts 69.6%, +36.8 points above that line.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Franklin County put the typical household earns roughly $77,003 per year, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Franklin County's 41 public schools (combined enrollment of about 21,432 students), Mountain View El Sch is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: James Buchanan HS, around 2.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Mountain View El Sch at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 51.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Five-year trend. Mountain View El Sch's enrollment has edged down 30% since 2018, when it stood at 264 (now 185). The White share of enrollment declined from 94% to 89% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.9:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 today.

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