Perry El Sch

Perry El Sch, a medium-sized elementary campus in Erie, Pennsylvania, run under Erie City SD, enrolls 466 students, covering grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 15 schools in Erie City SD (10,473 students total), Perry El Sch accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Perry El Sch reports that the most-represented group is White (35%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school shows 29% Black, 27% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, 2% Asian. By comparison, Erie County as a whole is about 83% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.3:1. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 103% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Erie County (around 74%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Perry El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.5%, the actual is 17.2%, a residual of -16.3 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Erie County indicate the typical household earns roughly $63,354 per year, about 30% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Perry El Sch is one of 68 public schools in Erie County (combined enrollment of about 35,738 students).

Erie HS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Perry El Sch comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 33.4%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count remained close to its prior level: 469 students in 2018 compared to 466 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 54% to 35% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 12.3:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Members of the school community can share what they know.