Penn Cambria Pre-Primary

Penn Cambria Pre-Primary is one of the micro-enrollment elementary campuss in Cresson, Pennsylvania, overseen by Penn Cambria SD, with 103 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through K. That puts it 77% leaner than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 443 students.

Penn Cambria SD runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 1,449 students. Penn Cambria Pre-Primary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Penn Cambria Pre-Primary logs that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 6% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Penn Cambria Pre-Primary shows 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. Roughly 58% of students at Penn Cambria Pre-Primary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Cambria County (around 73%), the school's rate is south of typical.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Cambria County indicate the typical household earns roughly $58,418 per year, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Cambria County runs 37 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,789 students), of which Penn Cambria Pre-Primary is one.

The closest other public school is Penn Cambria HS, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. Penn Cambria Pre-Primary's enrollment has edged down 19% since 2018, when it stood at 127 (now 103). The Hispanic share of enrollment expanded from 0% to 6% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 10.2:1 in 2025.

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