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North Pocono Intmd Sch
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About North Pocono Intmd Sch
Located at 701 Church St, in Moscow, Pennsylvania, North Pocono Intmd Sch is a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus that instructs 445 students (grades 4 through 5), operated by North Pocono SD.
North Pocono SD runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 2,865 students. North Pocono Intmd Sch is one of those campuses.
On demographics, North Pocono Intmd Sch shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (87%). The remainder reads as 7% multiracial, 3% Hispanic.
On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.0:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 37% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Lackawanna County (around 72%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.
With demographic context factored in, North Pocono Intmd Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 61.8%; this one delivers 61.7%.
In the area at large, ACS estimates for Lackawanna County put median household income runs about $66,223, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. North Pocono Intmd Sch is one of 47 public schools in Lackawanna County (combined enrollment of about 27,006 students).
North Pocono MS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around North Pocono Intmd Sch. On composite proficiency, North Pocono Intmd Sch comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 56.9%.
North Pocono Intmd Sch operates from an outlying location.
Trend over the last 7 years. North Pocono Intmd Sch's enrollment has declined 7% since 2018, when it stood at 481 (now 445). The White share of enrollment shrank from 94% to 87% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 in 2025.
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