West Branch Area El Sch

West Branch Area El Sch operates as an intimate elementary school in Morrisdale, Pennsylvania, operated by West Branch Area SD. Current enrollment sits at 374 students spanning grades K through 5.

Within West Branch Area SD, which oversees 3 schools and 834 students, West Branch Area El Sch is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, West Branch Area El Sch shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (96%). The remainder looks like 4% multiracial. Compared to Clearfield County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, On paper, West Branch Area El Sch has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.8:1. The state averages about 13.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 87% 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 Clearfield County (around 96%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, West Branch Area El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.1%, the actual is 50.1%, a residual of +10.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Clearfield County) logs that median household income runs about $62,152, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. West Branch Area El Sch is one of 19 public schools in Clearfield County (combined enrollment of about 8,409 students).

The closest other public school is West Branch Area HS, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), West Branch Area El Sch ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 51.2%.

The campus sits in a rural setting.

Over the past 7-year window. West Branch Area El Sch's enrollment has shrank 29% since 2018, when it stood at 524 (now 374).

In the discussion threads here, members of the West Branch Area El Sch community share and discuss sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.