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What's something Shamokin Area El Sch does better than most schools?
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Enrollment
830
Elementary
DISTRICT 541 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SHAMOKIN AREA SD·NCES 422124007009
Shamokin Area Elementary School
3000 W State St, Coal Township, PA 17866 · (570) 648-5721 · Northumberland County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL830 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 23% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Pennsylvania public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
12.6:1
66 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.0:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
827 students
DISTRICT 100% · STATE 75%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 153 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 168 | 20% |
| Grade 2 | 167 | 20% |
| Grade 3 | 190 | 23% |
| Grade 4 | 152 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (153) is about the same size as its 4th grade class (152).
Student demographics
45%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 40% · STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Shamokin Area Elementary School→Shamokin Area Intermediate School→Shamokin Area Middle School→Shamokin Area High School
Based on grade levels within Shamokin Area SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
25.6%
PA avg 51.1% . -6.6pp since 2023
Math
32.0%
PA avg 43.0% . +6.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 26 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 32 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 25.6% | 32.0% |
| 2023-24 | 32.2% | 25.1% |
% Proficient or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: PSSA + Keystone. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
31.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
34.9%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-3.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 35% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Pennsylvania's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Shamokin Area Elementary School
Shamokin Area Elementary School's state test result (31.9% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shamokin Area Elementary School this school | 830 | 99.6% | 31.9% |
| Valley El/MS Sugarloaf | 957 | 95.1% | 39.7% |
| Dunmore El Center Dunmore | 824 | 95.9% | 51.7% |
| Dana El Center Forty Fort | 626 | 95.8% | 40.2% |
| Brookwood Elementary School Levittown | 975 | 96.2% | 27.8% |
| Drums El/MS Drums | 842 | 95.1% | 45.2% |
Matched among Pennsylvania elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Shamokin Area Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Northumberland County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 31.9% | #1,152 of 1,396 | #6 of 6 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 32.0% | #1,125 of 1,511 ▲ 78 | #5 of 6 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 25.6% | #1,273 of 1,511 ▼ 37 | #6 of 6 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 830 | #69 of 1,638 | #1 of 8 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.6:1 | #633 of 1,528 | #3 of 8 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 44.7% | #660 of 1,531 | #2 of 8 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.6% | #323 of 1,600 | #3 of 8 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.4% | #879 of 1,045 | N/A |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
830
+26 (+3%) vs 2020
-28% since 1990-91, when it was 1,156
Student : Teacher
12.6:1
was 12.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 830 | 65.8 | 12.6:1 | 100% (827) |
| 2023-24 | 827 | 66.4 | 12.4:1 | 100% (827) |
| 2022-23 | 832 | 64.4 | 12.9:1 | 100% (832) |
| 2020-21 | 804 | 66 | 12.2:1 | 100% (804) |
| 2017-18 | 868 | 74.2 | 11.7:1 | 77% (672) |
| 2015-16 | 882 | 63 | 14.0:1 | 76% (670) |
| 2010-11 | 1,431 | 95 | 15.1:1 | 60% (865) |
| 2000-01 | 1,377 | 75 | 18.4:1 | 47% (641) |
| 1990-91 | 1,156 | 67 | 17.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Shamokin Area Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 4% (868 to 830); teachers down 11% (74.2 to 65.8).
About Shamokin Area Elementary School
Shamokin Area Elementary School is a high-enrollment elementary school serving families in Coal Township, Pennsylvania. It had 830 students in 2024-25, spanning pre-K through 4. That compares with an average of about 443 students for elementary schools in Pennsylvania.
Enrollment across the 4 schools in Shamokin Area SD totals 2,164 students.
About 72% of the student body at Shamokin Area Elementary School is White. Smaller groups are 18% Hispanic, 5% Black, and 5% multiracial. County-wide, 90% of Northumberland County residents are White. A diversity index of 45% means there is a 45% chance two randomly chosen students at Shamokin Area Elementary School are from different groups.
There are 65.8 full-time-equivalent teachers at the school, a ratio of 12.6:1. The 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania is close to this figure. On the income side, 100% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Across public schools in Northumberland County, the average is 86%.
Shamokin Area Elementary School holds a C- allk12 Grade, placing it above 23% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate across its state test results with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For Shamokin Area Elementary School, the prediction is 34.9% and the result is 31.9%.
In Northumberland County, median household income comes to about $60,583, roughly 19% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 9%. The county's public schools total 23, with about 10,386 students.
Shamokin Area Intermediate School is less than a tenth of a mile from Shamokin Area Elementary School, the shortest distance to any other public school. Counting only straight-line distance, 5 other public schools are within five miles. Among the 8 closest schools with test data, this one included, Shamokin Area Elementary School ranks 6th on average proficiency.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Rural: Fringe.
The school's enrollment increased 3% from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
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Northumberland County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
90,560
Census ACS
Median income
$60,583
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
19%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
23
10,386 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Shamokin Area SD
- Shamokin Area High SchoolHigh · 675 students
- Shamokin Area Middle SchoolMiddle · 351 students
- Shamokin Area Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 308 students
Other schools in Coal Township
- Shamokin Area Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 308 students
- Northumberland County Career and Technology CenterHigh · 15 students
Nearby schools
- Shamokin Area Intermediate School0.0 mi · 308
- Shamokin Area High School0.3 mi · 675
- Shamokin Area Middle School0.3 mi · 351
- Northumberland County Career and Technology Center0.5 mi · 15
- Line Mountain Elementary School4.4 mi · 355
- Mahantongo Elementary School6.6 mi · 148
Frequently asked questions
About Shamokin Area Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Shamokin Area Elementary School?
Shamokin Area Elementary School enrolls approximately 830 students in grades PK-04.
What age range does Shamokin Area Elementary School serve?
Shamokin Area Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 04.
How many students per teacher at Shamokin Area Elementary School?
Approximately 12.6:1 students per teacher at Shamokin Area Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Shamokin Area Elementary School?
Student demographics at Shamokin Area Elementary School are roughly 72% White, 18% Hispanic, 5% Black, 0% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Shamokin Area Elementary School in?
Shamokin Area Elementary School is part of Shamokin Area SD.
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