Swiftwater El Ctr

Located at 135 Academic Drive, in Swiftwater, Pennsylvania, Swiftwater El Ctr is a well-populated K-5 school that works with 971 students (grades K through 3), operated by Pocono Mountain SD. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Swiftwater El Ctr sits 119% above that benchmark.

Pocono Mountain SD runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 7,781 students. Swiftwater El Ctr is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Swiftwater El Ctr logs that 49% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder breaks down as 31% Hispanic, 11% Black, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Monroe County as a whole is about 64% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Swiftwater El Ctr lists 83 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. Roughly 100% of students at Swiftwater El Ctr qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Monroe County (around 74%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Swiftwater El Ctr performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.9%, the actual is 50.8%, a residual of +15.9 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Monroe County indicate median household earnings sit near $83,565, roughly 27% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, 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 Swiftwater El Ctr is one.

The closest other public school is Pocono Mountain East HS, roughly 0.3 miles away. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Swiftwater El Ctr comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 44.6%.

Swiftwater El Ctr operates from an outlying location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 980 students in 2018 compared to 971 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 59% to 49% over that span.

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