SRU El Sch

SRU El Sch operates as an average-sized elementary campus in East Smithfield, Pennsylvania, overseen by Athens Area SD. Current enrollment sits at 382 students spanning grades K through 5.

Athens Area SD runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 2,019 students. SRU El Sch is one of those campuses.

Demographically, SRU El Sch shows that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 5% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Bradford County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, SRU El Sch has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.1:1. The state averages about 13.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Bradford County runs at roughly 90%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, SRU El Sch sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 35.2%; this one delivers 41.5%.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Bradford County indicate median household income runs about $63,675, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. SRU El Sch is one of 19 public schools in Bradford County (combined enrollment of about 8,392 students).

Northern Tier Career Center is the nearest neighboring public school, about 8.2 miles from this campus. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts SRU El Sch at 4th of 6; the average score across the group is 41.1%.

The school occupies a countryside site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 7%: 358 students in 2018 compared to 382 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 1% to 5%.

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