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Slippery Rock Area El Sch
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Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedWhat this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 57 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 16 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 9 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Slippery Rock Area El Sch
Slippery Rock Area El Sch operates as a mid-sized elementary school in Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Slippery Rock Area SD. Current enrollment sits at 453 students spanning grades K through 5.
Slippery Rock Area SD comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 1,833 students; Slippery Rock Area El Sch is among them.
In terms of who attends, Slippery Rock Area El Sch records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (94%); the rest breaks down as 4% multiracial. Compared to Butler County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Slippery Rock Area El Sch has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. An estimated 48% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Butler County runs at roughly 37%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Slippery Rock Area El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.0%, the actual is 65.5%, a residual of +8.6 points.
In the broader community, Butler County reports that median household earnings sit near $89,843, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Butler County's 39 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,616 students), Slippery Rock Area El Sch is one campus in the mix.
Slippery Rock Area MS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.4 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Slippery Rock Area El Sch at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 62.1%.
Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.
Over the past 7-year window. Slippery Rock Area El Sch's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 463 (now 453).
On the community side, posts here usually surface around pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Butler County at a glance
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