Rice El Sch

Rice El Sch operates as a large primary school in Mountain Top, Pennsylvania, operated by Crestwood SD. Current enrollment sits at 735 students spanning grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 66% above the state mean of about 443.

Crestwood SD comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 2,726 students; Rice El Sch is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Rice El Sch records that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 5% Hispanic, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 76% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Rice El Sch has 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 18.7:1. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 22% of students at Rice El Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Luzerne County (around 85%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Rice El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 68.0%, the actual is 61.6%, a residual of -6.3 points.

Around the school, Luzerne County reports that the typical household earns roughly $63,691 per year, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Luzerne County runs 65 public schools (combined enrollment of about 45,209 students), of which Rice El Sch is one.

Nearest neighbor: Crestwood Secondary Campus, around 3.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 7 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Rice El Sch comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 39.7%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Rice El Sch's enrollment has fell 7% since 2018, when it stood at 789 (now 735).

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