Washington El Sch

Washington El Sch is an elementary school of small scale in Bangor, Pennsylvania, part of Bangor Area SD, educateing 375 students in grades 3 through 4.

Within Bangor Area SD, which oversees 5 schools and 2,672 students, Washington El Sch is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Washington El Sch shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (82%). Other groups include 10% Hispanic, 5% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.4:1. The state averages about 13.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 57% of students at Washington El Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Washington El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.0%, the actual is 66.0%, a residual of +13.0 points.

In the area at large, Northampton County reports that median household earnings sit near $89,184, about 35% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Northampton County runs 60 public schools (combined enrollment of about 38,316 students), of which Washington El Sch is one.

Pen Argyl Area HS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 3.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Washington El Sch. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Washington El Sch at 1st of 7; the average score across the group is 53.2%.

Washington El Sch operates from a residential location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Washington El Sch's enrollment has edged down 32% since 2018, when it stood at 550 (now 375). The White share of enrollment declined from 88% to 82% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.