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Enrollment
551
Elementary
DISTRICT 775 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·POCONO MOUNTAIN SD·NCES 421950003214
Tobyhanna El Center
398 Old Route 940, Pocono Pines, PA 18350 · (570) 839-7121 · Monroe County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL551 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 70% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Pennsylvania public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
9.8:1
56 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.8:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
548 students
DISTRICT 99% · STATE 75%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 68 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 69 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 91 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 84 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 73 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 88 | 16% |
| Grade 6 | 78 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (68) is 13% smaller than its 6th grade class (78).
Student demographics
62%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
43.8%
PA avg 51.1% . -12.9pp since 2023
Math
56.3%
PA avg 43.0% . +2.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 44 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 56 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 13 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 43.8% | 56.3% |
| 2023-24 | 56.7% | 54.0% |
% Proficient or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: PSSA + Keystone. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of PA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
55.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
35.0%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+21.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 56% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 35% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 21 points, placing it in Pennsylvania's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Tobyhanna El Center
Tobyhanna El Center's state test result (55.9% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tobyhanna El Center this school | 551 | 99.5% | 55.9% |
| Mountville Elementary School Mountville | 552 | 99.5% | 61.6% |
| Rohrerstown Elementary School Lancaster | 457 | 97.4% | 69.2% |
| East Petersburg Elementary School East Petersburg | 480 | 95.8% | 63.2% |
| Dana El Center Forty Fort | 626 | 95.8% | 40.2% |
| Fanny Jackson Coppin School Philadelphia | 547 | 98.2% | 59.3% |
Matched among Pennsylvania elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Tobyhanna El Center ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Monroe County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 55.9% | #711 of 1,396 | #5 of 12 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 56.3% | #645 of 1,511 no change | #4 of 13 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 43.8% | #923 of 1,511 ▼ 193 | #7 of 13 ▼ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 551 | #387 of 1,638 | #8 of 15 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.8:1 | #68 of 1,528 | #1 of 15 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.4% | #266 of 1,531 | #12 of 15 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.5% | #338 of 1,600 | #3 of 13 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -19.2% | #317 of 1,045 | #4 of 13 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
551
-17 (-3%) vs 2020
-29% since 1990-91, when it was 772
Student : Teacher
9.8:1
was 10.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 551 | 56.2 | 9.8:1 | 99% (548) |
| 2023-24 | 555 | 60.2 | 9.2:1 | 99% (552) |
| 2022-23 | 601 | 59.1 | 10.2:1 | 61% (368) |
| 2020-21 | 568 | 57 | 10.0:1 | 51% (287) |
| 2017-18 | 682 | 59.9 | 11.4:1 | 62% (426) |
| 2015-16 | 669 | 59 | 11.3:1 | 61% (406) |
| 2010-11 | 695 | 61 | 11.4:1 | 48% (337) |
| 2000-01 | 842 | 48 | 17.5:1 | 31% (265) |
| 1990-91 | 772 | 44 | 17.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Tobyhanna El Center.
Since 2017-18: students down 19% (682 to 551); teachers down 6% (59.9 to 56.2).
About Tobyhanna El Center
Tobyhanna El Center is a mid-sized elementary school with its address in Pocono Pines, Pennsylvania. It teaches 551 students in kindergarten through 6. By comparison, elementary schools in Pennsylvania enroll about 443 students on average.
Pocono Mountain SD enrolls 7,781 students, and its 9 schools include Tobyhanna El Center.
The student body at Tobyhanna El Center is 53% White. It is also 28% Hispanic, 11% Black, and 5% multiracial. Monroe County's residents are about 64% White, 11 points above the school's share. A diversity index of 62% means there is a 62% chance two randomly chosen students at Tobyhanna El Center are from different groups.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 9.8:1. The school has 56.2 full-time-equivalent teachers. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania is 13.1:1. In all, 99% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The rate at public schools in Monroe County averages 74%, lower than here.
Tobyhanna El Center earns a B+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 70% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Tobyhanna El Center would score about 35.0%. It scores 55.9%, a top-10% result among Pennsylvania schools on BeatsExpectations.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Monroe County show that median household income comes to about $83,565, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 27% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 9%. Monroe County counts 29 public schools with about 20,752 students.
Pocono Mountain West Junior High School is about 2.7 miles from Tobyhanna El Center, the shortest distance to any other public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes 2 other public schools. Among the 8 closest schools with test data, this one included, Tobyhanna El Center ranks 2nd on average proficiency.
Tobyhanna El Center falls in the Town: Distant locale category, used for schools in a town some distance from an urbanized area.
By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 551, from 568 in 2020-21.
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Monroe County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
167,515
Census ACS
Median income
$83,565
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
27%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
29
20,752 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Pocono Mountain SD
- Pocono Mountain West High SchoolHigh · 1,501 students
- Pocono Mountain East High SchoolHigh · 1,242 students
- Swiftwater El CenterElementary · 971 students
- Clear Run Intrmd SchoolElementary · 919 students
- Swiftwater Interm SchoolMiddle · 737 students
- Pocono Mountain West Junior High SchoolMiddle · 697 students
Nearby schools
- Pocono Mountain West Junior High School2.7 mi · 697
- Pocono Mountain West High School2.9 mi · 1,501
- Clear Run Intrmd School5.9 mi · 919
- Clear Run El Center6.0 mi · 658
- Penn-Kidder Campus7.8 mi · 541
- Swiftwater Interm School7.9 mi · 737
Frequently asked questions
About Tobyhanna El CenterHow many students attend Tobyhanna El Center?
Tobyhanna El Center enrolls approximately 551 students in grades KG-06.
Is Tobyhanna El Center an elementary, middle, or high school?
Tobyhanna El Center is an elementary school covering grades KG-06.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Tobyhanna El Center?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Tobyhanna El Center is approximately 9.8:1 (56 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Tobyhanna El Center?
At Tobyhanna El Center, the student body is approximately 53% White, 28% Hispanic, 11% Black, 2% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Tobyhanna El Center public or private?
Tobyhanna El Center is a public K-12 school, overseen by Pocono Mountain SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.