Sharpsville Area El Sch

Set in Sharpsville, Pennsylvania, Sharpsville Area El Sch is a medium-sized primary school, part of Sharpsville Area SD. It caters to 446 students across grades K through 5.

Sharpsville Area SD comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 989 students; Sharpsville Area El Sch is among them.

In terms of who attends, Sharpsville Area El Sch records that 85% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest comes out to 7% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, 4% Black. Compared to Mercer County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Sharpsville Area El Sch higher than the state norm the norm. Around 46% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Mercer County runs at roughly 71%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Sharpsville Area El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.1%, the actual is 59.1%, a residual of +1.0 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Mercer County put median household income runs about $59,976, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Sharpsville Area El Sch is one of 37 public schools in Mercer County (combined enrollment of about 12,815 students).

Sharpsville Area SHS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Sharpsville Area El Sch. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Sharpsville Area El Sch ranks 4th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 55.9%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 11%: 503 students in 2018 compared to 446 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 90% to 85%.

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