Towanda Area El Sch

As a reasonably sized elementary-level community in Towanda, Pennsylvania, Towanda Area El Sch caters to 423 students from grades 3 through 6, run under Towanda Area SD.

Towanda Area El Sch is one of 3 schools operated by Towanda Area SD, a district that works with 1,482 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Towanda Area El Sch logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (94%); the rest looks like 3% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Bradford County as a whole.

On the resource side, The school employs 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.0:1. The state averages about 13.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 101% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Bradford County (around 90%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Towanda Area El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.1%, the actual is 45.8%, a residual of +11.6 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Bradford County put median household earnings sit near $63,675, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Bradford County runs 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,392 students), of which Towanda Area El Sch is one.

Nearest neighbor: Towanda Area JSHS, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Towanda Area El Sch at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 47.4%.

Towanda Area El Sch operates from a town-center location.

Five-year trend. Towanda Area El Sch's enrollment has contracted 7% since 2018, when it stood at 453 (now 423). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 today.

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