Salladasburg El Sch

Salladasburg El Sch is one of the close-knit K-5 schools in Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Jersey Shore Area SD, with 217 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Salladasburg El Sch sits 51% smaller than that benchmark.

Salladasburg El Sch is one of 5 schools operated by Jersey Shore Area SD, a district that educates 2,088 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Salladasburg El Sch reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (97%). Beyond that, the school records 2% multiracial. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 89%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. About 50% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below Lycoming County's rate of about 60%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Salladasburg El Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 56.1%; this one delivers 48.5%.

In the surrounding community, Lycoming County reports that median household income runs about $63,917, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Lycoming County's 30 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,288 students), Salladasburg El Sch is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Jersey Shore Area MS, roughly 4.9 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Salladasburg El Sch ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 52.9%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Salladasburg El Sch has changed only slightly, going from 218 students in 2018 to 217 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 19.5:1 today.

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