Saint Clair Area El/MS

Saint Clair Area El/MS is one of the reasonably sized K-5 schools in Saint Clair, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Saint Clair Area SD, with 547 students on its rolls from grades K through 8. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Saint Clair Area El/MS sits 23% bigger than that benchmark.

Saint Clair Area El/MS sits inside Saint Clair Area SD, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

Demographically, Saint Clair Area El/MS lists that 73% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school records 17% Hispanic, 5% Black, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 88%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Saint Clair Area El/MS has 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 65% of students at Saint Clair Area El/MS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Saint Clair Area El/MS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 49.9%, the actual is 42.1%, a residual of -7.8 points.

Around the school, Schuylkill County reports that the typical household earns roughly $68,313 per year, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Saint Clair Area El/MS is one of 35 public schools in Schuylkill County (combined enrollment of about 18,259 students).

Nearest neighbor: Gillingham Charter School, around 2.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Saint Clair Area El/MS. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Saint Clair Area El/MS at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 45.1%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Saint Clair Area El/MS has expanded 3%, going from 533 students in 2018 to 547 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 87% to 73%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 in 2025.

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