Weatherly Area El Sch

As a cozy primary school in Weatherly, Pennsylvania, Weatherly Area El Sch works with 291 students from grades pre-K through 5, one of the schools within Weatherly Area SD. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 34% below typical.

Across the 3 schools in Weatherly Area SD (588 students total), Weatherly Area El Sch accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Weatherly Area El Sch records that 83% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school shows 13% Hispanic, 2% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.7:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 67% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Weatherly Area El Sch tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 49.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 52.1%.

In the surrounding community, census data for Carbon County shows the typical household earns roughly $67,554 per year, roughly 19% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Carbon County's 18 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,111 students), Weatherly Area El Sch is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Weatherly Area MS, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 3 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Weatherly Area El Sch comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 40.7%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 6%: 274 students in 2018 compared to 291 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 92% to 83%. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 11.9:1 in 2018 to 14.7:1 today.

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