Wallenpaupack South El Sch

As an intimate primary school in Newfoundland, Pennsylvania, Wallenpaupack South El Sch hosts 254 students from grades K through 5, one of the schools within Wallenpaupack Area SD. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Wallenpaupack South El Sch sits 43% smaller than that benchmark.

Wallenpaupack Area SD comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 2,759 students; Wallenpaupack South El Sch is among them.

In terms of who attends, Wallenpaupack South El Sch records that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest breaks down as 12% Hispanic, 4% Black, 2% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Wallenpaupack South El Sch tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Wayne County's rate of about 56%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Wallenpaupack South El Sch sits in the top 10% of Pennsylvania schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 35.2%; actual is 54.5%, +19.3 points clear of the demographic baseline.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Wayne County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $62,381 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Wayne County runs 11 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,372 students), of which Wallenpaupack South El Sch is one.

EverGreen El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 8.6 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Wallenpaupack South El Sch ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 57.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 7%: 272 students in 2018 compared to 254 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 87% to 82% across the same window.

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