Neshannock Memorial El Sch

Neshannock Memorial El Sch is one of the expansive elementary campuss in New Castle, Pennsylvania, overseen by Neshannock Township SD, with 688 students on its rolls from grades K through 6. That puts it 55% larger than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 443 students.

Neshannock Township SD runs 2 schools in total, collectively educating 1,233 students. Neshannock Memorial El Sch is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Neshannock Memorial El Sch reports that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Neshannock Memorial El Sch has 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.3:1. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 30% of students at Neshannock Memorial El Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is lower than Lawrence County's rate of about 67%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Neshannock Memorial El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.0%, the actual is 67.2%, a residual of +2.2 points.

Around the school, census data for Lawrence County shows median household income runs about $61,931, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Lawrence County runs 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,015 students), of which Neshannock Memorial El Sch is one.

Nearest neighbor: Neshannock JSHS, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Neshannock Memorial El Sch ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 42.7%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 18%: 585 students in 2018 compared to 688 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 96% to 92% over that span.

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