Shamokin Area El Sch

Set in Coal Township, Pennsylvania, Shamokin Area El Sch is a sprawling primary school, operated by Shamokin Area SD. It works with 830 students across grades pre-K through 4. That puts it 87% bigger than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 443 students.

Across the 4 schools in Shamokin Area SD (2,164 students total), Shamokin Area El Sch accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Shamokin Area El Sch lists that the largest single group is White, at 72% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school shows 18% Hispanic, 5% Black, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 90% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Shamokin Area El Sch has 66 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Northumberland County runs at roughly 86%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Shamokin Area El Sch tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 34.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 31.9%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Northumberland County indicate the typical household earns roughly $60,583 per year, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. Across Northumberland County's 23 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,386 students), Shamokin Area El Sch is one campus in the mix.

Shamokin Area Intermediate Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 5 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Shamokin Area El Sch comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 36.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 4%: 868 students in 2018 compared to 830 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 84% to 72% over that span.

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