Strodes Mills El Sch

Set in McVeytown, Pennsylvania, Strodes Mills El Sch is a cozy K-5 school, one of the schools within Mifflin County SD. It serves 254 students across grades K through 3. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 43% below typical.

Strodes Mills El Sch is one of 9 schools operated by Mifflin County SD, a district that teaches 4,491 students overall.

On demographics, Strodes Mills El Sch lists that the student body is overwhelmingly White (94%); the rest reads as 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Strodes Mills El Sch reports 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. Around 99% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Mifflin County (around 76%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Strodes Mills El Sch is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 35.2%; this one delivers 52.1%, a residual of +16.9 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Mifflin County put median household income runs about $63,953, about 15% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Strodes Mills El Sch is one of 11 public schools in Mifflin County (combined enrollment of about 4,774 students).

Nearest neighbor: Lewistown Intrmd Sch, around 6.4 miles off. Within ten miles, there are 6 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. On composite proficiency, Strodes Mills El Sch comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 40.4%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Looking at the recent track record. Strodes Mills El Sch's enrollment has expanded 22% since 2018, when it stood at 208 (now 254).

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