Smithfield El Sch

Smithfield El Sch is one of the small elementary-level communitys in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, part of East Stroudsburg Area SD, with 327 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 26% below typical.

Smithfield El Sch is one of 10 schools operated by East Stroudsburg Area SD, a district that enrolls 6,353 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Smithfield El Sch reports that the most-represented group is White (37%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 23% Black, 16% multiracial, 14% Native American, 8% Hispanic. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 64%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 30 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 Smithfield El Sch tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 40% of students at Smithfield El Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is south of Monroe County's rate of about 74%.

With demographic context factored in, Smithfield El Sch tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 60.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 60.0%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Monroe County put median household earnings sit near $83,565, about 27% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. In all, Monroe County runs 29 public schools (combined enrollment of about 20,752 students), of which Smithfield El Sch is one.

East Stroudsburg El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Smithfield El Sch. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Smithfield El Sch ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 47.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Looking at the recent track record. Smithfield El Sch's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 324 (now 327). Over the same period, the Hispanic share fell from 20% to 8%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 in 2025.

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