Rommelt El Sch

Located at 515 West Central Avenue, in South Williamsport, Pennsylvania, Rommelt El Sch is a micro-enrollment intermediate school that serves 176 students (grades 5 through 6), run under South Williamsport Area SD. Compared to the state average of about 594 students per school, that is 70% smaller than typical.

Rommelt El Sch is one of 3 schools operated by South Williamsport Area SD, a district that teaches 1,068 students overall.

Demographically, Rommelt El Sch reports that 91% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 5% multiracial, 2% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 65% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Rommelt El Sch tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 49.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 41.1%.

In the area at large, Lycoming County reports that the typical household earns roughly $63,917 per year, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Lycoming County's 30 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,288 students), Rommelt El Sch is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Central El Sch, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 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), Rommelt El Sch ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 49.4%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 14%: 204 students in 2018 compared to 176 in 2025. Class-load math has widened: from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 16.4:1 in 2025.

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