Northern Bedford Co El Sch

Northern Bedford Co El Sch, an average-sized elementary-level community in Loysburg, Pennsylvania, part of Northern Bedford County SD, enrolls 414 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Within Northern Bedford County SD, which oversees 3 schools and 854 students, Northern Bedford Co El Sch is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Northern Bedford Co El Sch shows that 97% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Northern Bedford Co El Sch shows 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 54% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Bedford County (around 65%), the school's rate is south of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Northern Bedford Co El Sch tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 54.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 57.4%.

In the broader community, Bedford County reports that median household income runs about $59,992, roughly 16% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Bedford County runs 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,951 students), of which Northern Bedford Co El Sch is one.

Northern Bedford County HS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Northern Bedford Co El Sch comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 48.6%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 411 students in 2018 compared to 414 in 2025.

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