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Sugar Valley Rural CS
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedWhat this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 21 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 21 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 9 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 26% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 35% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Sugar Valley Rural CS
Sugar Valley Rural CS operates as a minimally staffed all-grades campus in Loganton, Pennsylvania, run under Sugar Valley Rural CS. Current enrollment sits at 472 students spanning grades K through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 74% leaner than the state mean of about 1,819.
Operationally, Sugar Valley Rural CS answers to Sugar Valley Rural CS, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.
On the student-mix side, Sugar Valley Rural CS shows that nearly all students (97%) are White. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
On the resource side, On paper, Sugar Valley Rural CS has 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Sugar Valley Rural CS tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 34.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 26.3%.
In the surrounding community, census data for Clinton County shows median household earnings sit near $60,816, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Clinton County's 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 3,879 students), Sugar Valley Rural CS is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Miles Township El Sch, around 9.8 miles off. On composite proficiency, Sugar Valley Rural CS comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 56.8%.
The campus sits in a low-density setting. Sugar Valley Rural CS operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 478 students in 2018 compared to 472 in 2025.
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