Perry Lower Intrmd Sch

Set in Ellwood City, Pennsylvania, Perry Lower Intrmd Sch is a close-knit elementary school, part of Ellwood City Area SD. It enrolls 225 students across grades 3 through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 49% below the state mean of about 443.

Ellwood City Area SD comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,508 students; Perry Lower Intrmd Sch is among them.

On the student-mix side, Perry Lower Intrmd Sch lists that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school reports 8% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Perry Lower Intrmd Sch tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 59% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Lawrence County (around 67%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Perry Lower Intrmd Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 52.5%, the actual is 58.3%, a residual of +5.8 points.

In the broader community, census data for Lawrence County shows the typical household earns roughly $61,931 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Lawrence County runs 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,015 students), of which Perry Lower Intrmd Sch is one.

Nearest neighbor: Riverside MS, around 1.9 miles off. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Perry Lower Intrmd Sch ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 54.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Perry Lower Intrmd Sch's enrollment has decreased 14% since 2018, when it stood at 263 (now 225). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 12.5:1 in 2018 to 10.0:1 today.

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