Redbank Valley Intrmd Sch

Set in Hawthorn, Pennsylvania, Redbank Valley Intrmd Sch is a small elementary-level community, operated by Redbank Valley SD. It teaches 200 students across grades 3 through 5. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 55% below typical.

Redbank Valley Intrmd Sch is one of 3 schools operated by Redbank Valley SD, a district that enrolls 957 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Redbank Valley Intrmd Sch reports that 95% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 3% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Redbank Valley Intrmd Sch shows 21 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. An estimated 104% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Clarion County (around 72%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Redbank Valley Intrmd Sch sits in the top 10% of Pennsylvania schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 33.0%; actual is 61.3%, +28.3 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the broader community, Clarion County reports that median household earnings sit near $62,649, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Redbank Valley Intrmd Sch is one of 16 public schools in Clarion County (combined enrollment of about 5,023 students).

Redbank Valley HS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 2 other public schools cluster around Redbank Valley Intrmd Sch. On composite proficiency, Redbank Valley Intrmd Sch comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 54.0%.

Redbank Valley Intrmd Sch operates from a rural location.

Looking at the recent track record. Redbank Valley Intrmd Sch's enrollment has fell 46% since 2018, when it stood at 369 (now 200). Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 9.7:1 in 2025.

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