Neil Armstrong #40

Set in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Neil Armstrong #40 is a mid-tier K-5 school, one of the schools within Scranton SD. It hosts 441 students across grades K through 4.

Neil Armstrong #40 is one of 15 schools operated by Scranton SD, a district that serves 9,165 students overall.

Demographically, Neil Armstrong #40 logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (39%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 30% White, 16% Black, 10% multiracial, 5% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 10% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Neil Armstrong #40 tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 97% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Lackawanna County's rate of about 72%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Neil Armstrong #40 performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 36.1%, the actual is 36.0%, a residual of -0.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Lackawanna County shows the typical household earns roughly $66,223 per year, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Lackawanna County's 47 public schools (combined enrollment of about 27,006 students), Neil Armstrong #40 is one campus in the mix.

Isaac Tripp El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Neil Armstrong #40. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Neil Armstrong #40 at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 37.0%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 27%: 608 students in 2018 compared to 441 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 55% to 30%. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 in 2025.

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