Penns Manor Area El Sch

Set in Clymer, Pennsylvania, Penns Manor Area El Sch is a tight-knit primary school, operated by Penns Manor Area SD. It instructs 321 students across grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 28% below typical.

Penns Manor Area SD comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 692 students; Penns Manor Area El Sch is among them.

On the student-mix side, Penns Manor Area El Sch lists that nearly all students (96%) are White. Beyond that, the school lists 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Penns Manor Area El Sch tighter than the state norm the norm. About 60% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Penns Manor Area El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.7%, the actual is 48.9%, a residual of -2.8 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Indiana County indicate median household income runs about $60,208, roughly 27% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Penns Manor Area El Sch is one of 22 public schools in Indiana County (combined enrollment of about 8,470 students).

Nearest neighbor: Penns Manor Area JSHS, around 0.1 miles off. 8 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 Penns Manor Area El Sch at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 50.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 16%: 382 students in 2018 compared to 321 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 12.6:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 in 2025.

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