Neason Hill El Sch
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedWhat this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 38 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 33 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 7 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 36% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Neason Hill El Sch
Neason Hill El Sch is one of the modestly sized elementary-level communitys in Meadville, Pennsylvania, run under Crawford Central SD, with 333 students on its rolls from grades K through 6. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Neason Hill El Sch sits 25% smaller than that benchmark.
Neason Hill El Sch is one of 8 schools operated by Crawford Central SD, a district that instructs 2,993 students overall.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Neason Hill El Sch records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (80%); the rest reads as 11% multiracial, 5% Black, 3% Hispanic. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 93%.
Looking at school resources, On paper, Neason Hill El Sch has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Neason Hill El Sch higher than the state norm the norm. An estimated 98% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Crawford County runs at roughly 79%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Neason Hill El Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 35.8%; this one delivers 40.0%.
In the broader community, Crawford County reports that median household income runs about $60,476, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Crawford County runs 26 public schools (combined enrollment of about 9,156 students), of which Neason Hill El Sch is one.
Second District El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Neason Hill El Sch. On composite proficiency, Neason Hill El Sch comes 7th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 52.8%.
The campus sits in a town-center setting.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Neason Hill El Sch has stayed largely flat, going from 340 students in 2018 to 333 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 90% to 80% across the same window.
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