Enrollment
357
Elementary
DISTRICT 314 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WILMINGTON AREA SD·NCES 422652006963
Wilmington Area Elementary School
450 Wood St, New Wilmington, PA 16142 · (724) 656-8866 · Lawrence County
GRADES KG–04ELEMENTARY42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL357 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 57% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Pennsylvania public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
12.3:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.2:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
44%
156 students
DISTRICT 56% · STATE 75%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 56 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 80 | 22% |
| Grade 2 | 62 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 88 | 25% |
| Grade 4 | 71 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (56) is 21% smaller than its 4th grade class (71).
Student demographics
8%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 8% · STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on grade levels within Wilmington Area SD. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
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PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
54.1%
PA avg 51.1% . -6.9pp since 2023
Math
58.3%
PA avg 43.0% . -0.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 54 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 58 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 7 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 54.1% | 58.3% |
| 2023-24 | 61.0% | 59.1% |
% Proficient or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: PSSA + Keystone. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
62.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.9%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 62% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Pennsylvania's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Wilmington Area Elementary School
Wilmington Area Elementary School's state test result (62.2% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wilmington Area Elementary School this school | 357 | 43.7% | 62.2% |
| Moraine Elementary School Prospect | 349 | 43.3% | 68.8% |
| Fairfield Area Elementary School Fairfield | 346 | 43.1% | 63.3% |
| Penns Valley Area El and Intrmd School Spring Mills | 348 | 45.4% | 64.0% |
| Robison Elementary School Erie | 359 | 40.4% | 75.5% |
| South Side Elementary School Hookstown | 390 | 41.5% | 53.8% |
Matched among Pennsylvania elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Wilmington Area Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Lawrence County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 62.2% | #518 of 1,396 | #4 of 8 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 58.3% | #577 of 1,511 ▼ 64 | #5 of 8 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 54.1% | #616 of 1,511 ▼ 20 | #6 of 8 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 357 | #1,032 of 1,638 | #8 of 10 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.3:1 | #546 of 1,528 | #3 of 10 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 7.6% | #1,478 of 1,531 | #10 of 10 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 43.7% | #1,100 of 1,600 | #7 of 10 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -7.8% | #751 of 1,045 | #7 of 9 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
357
+3 (+1%) vs 2020
-18% since 1990-91, when it was 434
Student : Teacher
12.3:1
was 11.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 357 | 28.9 | 12.3:1 | 44% (156) |
| 2023-24 | 366 | 29.6 | 12.4:1 | 43% (156) |
| 2022-23 | 350 | 29.6 | 11.8:1 | 99% (347) |
| 2020-21 | 354 | 32 | 11.1:1 | 40% (141) |
| 2017-18 | 387 | 27.6 | 14.0:1 | 33% (127) |
| 2015-16 | 293 | 26 | 11.3:1 | 35% (102) |
| 2010-11 | 287 | 22 | 13.1:1 | 28% (80) |
| 2000-01 | 327 | 21 | 15.6:1 | 24% (79) |
| 1990-91 | 434 | 28 | 15.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Wilmington Area Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 8% (387 to 357); teachers up 5% (27.6 to 28.9).
About Wilmington Area Elementary School
Wilmington Area Elementary School is a small elementary school in Wilmington Area SD, located in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania. Its enrollment is 357 students, spread over kindergarten through 4.
The district, Wilmington Area SD, operates 3 schools serving 943 students.
The share of students at Wilmington Area Elementary School who are White is 96%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 8%.
The school's 28.9 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.3:1. The average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania is 13.1:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. At Wilmington Area Elementary School, 44% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. That is 23 points below the 67% average for public schools in Lawrence County.
Among Pennsylvania public elementary schools, Wilmington Area Elementary School outscored 57%, which works out to a B on the allk12 Grade.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Wilmington Area Elementary School is 3.3 points above the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 62.2% actual, 58.9% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Pennsylvania.
The school is in Lawrence County, where the median household earns about $61,931 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 23% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 8%. Wilmington Area Elementary School shares Lawrence County with 24 other public schools.
Wilmington Area Elementary School is about 0.2 miles from Wilmington Area JSHS, its nearest public school. Within five miles are 4 other public schools. On proficiency, Wilmington Area Elementary School is ahead of the 54.1% nearby average, ranking 4th of 9.
For locale, NCES codes Wilmington Area Elementary School as Rural: Distant.
Over 4 years, enrollment stayed close to where it was, going from 354 to 357. The number of students per teacher increased from 11.1 to 12.3 over 4 years.
Wilmington Area Elementary School has a community page on allk12 for topics such as athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
Lawrence County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
85,024
Census ACS
Median income
$61,931
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
23%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
25
11,015 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Wilmington Area SD
- Wilmington Area JSHSHigh · 444 students
- Wilmington Area Upper Elementary SchoolMiddle · 142 students
Other schools in New Wilmington
- Wilmington Area JSHSHigh · 444 students
- Wilmington Area Upper Elementary SchoolMiddle · 142 students
Nearby schools
- Wilmington Area JSHS0.2 mi · 444
- Wilmington Area Upper Elementary School0.2 mi · 142
- Neshannock Memorial Elementary School4.2 mi · 688
- Neshannock JSHS4.2 mi · 545
- Oakview Elementary School6.4 mi · 171
- Luther W Low Elementary School6.4 mi · 191
Frequently asked questions
About Wilmington Area Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Wilmington Area Elementary School?
Wilmington Area Elementary School enrolls approximately 357 students in grades KG-04.
Is Wilmington Area Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Wilmington Area Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-04.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Wilmington Area Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Wilmington Area Elementary School is approximately 12.3:1 (29 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Wilmington Area Elementary School?
At Wilmington Area Elementary School, the student body is approximately 96% White, 1% Hispanic, 1% Black, 2% Two or more.
What district is Wilmington Area Elementary School in?
Wilmington Area Elementary School is part of Wilmington Area SD.
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