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Enrollment
735
Elementary
DISTRICT 674 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CRESTWOOD SD·NCES 420546005341
Rice Elementary School
3700 Church Road, Mountain Top, PA 18707 · (570) 868-3161 · Luzerne County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY41-RURALREGULAR SCHOOL735 STUDENTS
B-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 45% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Pennsylvania public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
18.7:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 19.1:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
22%
165 students
DISTRICT 25% · STATE 75%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 90 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 105 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 104 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 99 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 93 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 128 | 17% |
| Grade 6 | 116 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (90) is 22% smaller than its 6th grade class (116).
Student demographics
19%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 24% · STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Rice Elementary School→Crestwood Secondary Campus
Based on grade levels within Crestwood SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
57.1%
PA avg 51.1% . -13.1pp since 2023
Math
54.9%
PA avg 43.0% . +3.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 57 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 55 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 13 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 57.1% | 54.9% |
| 2023-24 | 70.2% | 51.7% |
% Proficient or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: PSSA + Keystone. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
61.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
68.0%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-6.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 62% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 68% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Pennsylvania's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Rice Elementary School
Rice Elementary School's state test result (61.6% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rice Elementary School this school | 735 | 22.4% | 61.6% |
| Connoquenessing Valley Elementary School Zelienople | 714 | 20.2% | 71.5% |
| Ehrman Crest Elementary School Cranberry Township | 837 | 17.9% | 70.8% |
| Dutch Ridge Elementary School Beaver | 640 | 20.2% | 80.5% |
| Franklin Regional Primary School Murrysville | 619 | 21.0% | N/A |
| Scenic Hills Elementary School Springfield | 675 | 17.0% | 84.0% |
Matched among Pennsylvania elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Rice Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Luzerne County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 61.6% | #533 of 1,396 | #6 of 27 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 54.9% | #667 of 1,511 ▲ 40 | #7 of 27 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 57.1% | #510 of 1,511 ▼ 168 | #4 of 27 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 735 | #114 of 1,638 | #9 of 38 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.7:1 | #1,506 of 1,528 | #29 of 33 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 19.0% | #1,206 of 1,531 | #28 of 33 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 22.4% | #1,416 of 1,600 | #37 of 37 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.8% | #785 of 1,045 | #7 of 13 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
735
-55 (-7%) vs 2020
+2% since 1990-91, when it was 718
Student : Teacher
18.7:1
was 17.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 735 | 39.4 | 18.7:1 | 22% (165) |
| 2023-24 | 752 | 41.4 | 18.2:1 | 22% (165) |
| 2022-23 | 767 | 45.2 | 17.0:1 | 25% (192) |
| 2020-21 | 790 | 45 | 17.6:1 | 23% (180) |
| 2017-18 | 789 | 42.1 | 18.7:1 | 5% (39) |
| 2015-16 | 804 | 42 | 19.1:1 | 17% (140) |
| 2010-11 | 799 | 44 | 18.2:1 | 18% (143) |
| 2000-01 | 779 | 37 | 21.1:1 | 17% (129) |
| 1990-91 | 718 | 36 | 19.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Rice Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 7% (789 to 735); teachers down 7% (42.1 to 39.4).
About Rice Elementary School
Rice Elementary School is a high-enrollment elementary school in Pennsylvania, located in Mountain Top. It enrolls 735 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are kindergarten through 6. That puts enrollment 66% bigger than the 443-student average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania.
Rice Elementary School is a school in Crestwood SD. The district has 3 schools and 2,726 students.
Roughly 90% of students at Rice Elementary School are White. Enrollment also includes 5% Hispanic and 3% Asian. Among people living in Luzerne County, the White share is about 76%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Rice Elementary School scores 19%.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 18.7:1. The school has 39.4 full-time-equivalent teachers. The school's 18.7:1 compares with an average of 13.1:1 for elementary schools in Pennsylvania. Federal data show 22% of students (165) are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is lower than the 85% average for public schools in Luzerne County.
Rice Elementary School holds a B- allk12 Grade, placing it above 45% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools.
A school with Rice Elementary School's lunch-eligibility share in Pennsylvania is predicted to score 68.0%. Rice Elementary School scores 61.6%, 6.3 points below that line.
Census data for Luzerne County show the median household earns about $63,691 a year, roughly 25% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Rice Elementary School, Luzerne County has 65 public schools.
Crestwood Secondary Campus is the nearest public school to Rice Elementary School, about 3.5 miles away. Rice Elementary School is one of several public schools in the area, with 7 others within five miles. Nearby schools with test data average 39.7% proficiency; Rice Elementary School posts 61.6%.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Rural: Fringe: in rural territory close to an urban area.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, Rice Elementary School had a net loss of 55 students, or 7%. The ratio of students to teachers went from 17.6:1 to 18.7:1 over the same years.
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Luzerne County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
327,675
Census ACS
Median income
$63,691
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
25%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
65
45,209 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Crestwood SD
- Crestwood Secondary CampusHigh · 1,379 students
- Fairview Elementary SchoolElementary · 612 students
Other Rice Elementary schools
6 other US public schools in 5 states are named Rice Elementary. Rice Elementary School is the largest of the 7.
- Rice Elementary SchoolSan Carlos, AZ · 673 students
- Rice Elementary SchoolTYLER, TX · 613 students
- Rice Elementary SchoolCONROE, TX · 602 students
- Rice Elementary SchoolRICE, TX · 444 students
- Rice Elementary SchoolWELLINGTON, CO · 401 students
Nearby schools
- Crestwood Secondary Campus3.5 mi · 1,379
- Greater Nanticoke Area Ed Center4.1 mi · 533
- GNA El Center4.1 mi · 513
- Kennedy Early Childhood Center4.1 mi · 505
- Greater Nanticoke Area SHS4.2 mi · 698
- Fairview Elementary School4.8 mi · 612
Frequently asked questions
About Rice Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Rice Elementary School?
Rice Elementary School enrolls approximately 735 students in grades KG-06.
What grades does Rice Elementary School serve?
Rice Elementary School serves grades KG-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Rice Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Rice Elementary School is approximately 18.7:1 (39 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Rice Elementary School?
Rice Elementary School reports a student body of 90% White, 5% Hispanic, 1% Black, 3% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Rice Elementary School?
Rice Elementary School is overseen by Crestwood SD in Luzerne County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.