Northern Potter Childrens School

Northern Potter Childrens School operates as a small elementary school in Ulysses, Pennsylvania, overseen by Northern Potter SD. Current enrollment sits at 293 students spanning grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 34% below the state mean of about 443.

Within Northern Potter SD, which oversees 2 schools and 512 students, Northern Potter Childrens School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Northern Potter Childrens School lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (97%). Beyond that, the school logs 2% multiracial. Compared to Potter County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. An estimated 68% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is lower than Potter County's rate of about 90%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Northern Potter Childrens School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.6%, the actual is 44.5%, a residual of -4.1 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Potter County put the typical household earns roughly $59,020 per year, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Potter County runs 13 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,705 students), of which Northern Potter Childrens School is one.

Northern Potter JSHS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Northern Potter Childrens School at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 45.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Northern Potter Childrens School has decreased 3%, going from 303 students in 2018 to 293 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 12.0:1 today.

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