Westfield Area El Sch

Westfield Area El Sch operates as an intimate elementary school in Westfield, Pennsylvania, part of Northern Tioga SD. Current enrollment sits at 315 students spanning grades K through 6. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Westfield Area El Sch sits 29% smaller than that benchmark.

Northern Tioga SD comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,989 students; Westfield Area El Sch is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Westfield Area El Sch shows that 97% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Compared to Tioga County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.8:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Tioga County (around 73%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Westfield Area El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.6%, the actual is 49.7%, a residual of +15.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for Tioga County put the typical household earns roughly $64,899 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Tioga County runs 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,053 students), of which Westfield Area El Sch is one.

Cowanesque Valley JSHS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 4 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Westfield Area El Sch at 1st of 8; the average score across the group is 42.2%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Westfield Area El Sch's enrollment has fell 19% since 2018, when it stood at 390 (now 315).

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