Oakview El Sch
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Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedWhat this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 76 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 76 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 77% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 55% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 23 points, placing it in Pennsylvania's top 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Oakview El Sch
Oakview El Sch operates as a modestly sized primary school in Stoneboro, Pennsylvania, operated by Lakeview SD. Current enrollment sits at 348 students spanning grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 21% smaller than typical.
Lakeview SD comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 800 students; Oakview El Sch is among them.
Looking at the student body, Oakview El Sch shows that nearly all students (97%) are White. Other groups include 2% Hispanic. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 88%.
Looking at school resources, Oakview El Sch reports 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. Roughly 54% of students at Oakview El Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Mercer County (around 71%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Oakview El Sch ranks in the top 10% of Pennsylvania public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 54.6%; Oakview El Sch posts 77.5%, +22.9 points above that line.
Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Mercer County) records that median household earnings sit near $59,976, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Mercer County runs 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 12,815 students), of which Oakview El Sch is one.
Lakeview Middle-HS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 3 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Oakview El Sch comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 51.2%.
Oakview El Sch operates from a countryside location.
Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 12%: 395 students in 2018 compared to 348 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 11.2:1 in 2018 to 9.7:1 today.
In the discussion threads here, the feed for Oakview El Sch typically covers pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.
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