Seventh Street Sch

Seventh Street Sch is a K-5 school of tiny scale in Oil City, Pennsylvania, part of Oil City Area SD, works with 152 students in grades 2 through 4. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 66% leaner than typical.

Seventh Street Sch is one of 5 schools operated by Oil City Area SD, a district that caters to 1,794 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Seventh Street Sch records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (84%). Beyond that, the school records 9% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Black. The wider county runs roughly 94% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Seventh Street Sch tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 103% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Venango County's rate of about 90%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Seventh Street Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.6%, the actual is 46.3%, a residual of +12.7 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Venango County indicate median household earnings sit near $61,522, about 19% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Venango County's 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,704 students), Seventh Street Sch is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Smedley Street Sch, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 7 other public schools cluster around Seventh Street Sch. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Seventh Street Sch at 3rd of 5; the average score across the group is 47.3%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Seventh Street Sch has fell 16%, going from 180 students in 2018 to 152 in 2025. The White share of enrollment contracted from 93% to 84% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 in 2025.

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