Ross El Sch

As a micro-enrollment K-5 school in Sweet Valley, Pennsylvania, Ross El Sch serves 166 students from grades K through 6, operated by Lake-Lehman SD. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 63% below typical.

Ross El Sch is one of 4 schools operated by Lake-Lehman SD, a district that enrolls 1,558 students overall.

On demographics, Ross El Sch logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (92%). Other groups include 4% Black, 2% multiracial. That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 76%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 48% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Luzerne County (around 85%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Ross El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.2%, the actual is 50.3%, a residual of -6.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, Luzerne County reports that the typical household earns roughly $63,691 per year, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 Ross El Sch is one.

Nearest neighbor: Northwest Area Intermediate Sch, around 3.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Ross El Sch at 3rd of 7; the average score across the group is 49.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 23%: 216 students in 2018 compared to 166 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 98% to 92% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 9.6:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 today.

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