Wilmington Area Upper El Sch

Set in New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, Wilmington Area Upper El Sch is a minimally staffed middle school, overseen by Wilmington Area SD. It educates 142 students across grades 5 through 6. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 594 students each, so Wilmington Area Upper El Sch sits 76% smaller than that benchmark.

Wilmington Area SD comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 943 students; Wilmington Area Upper El Sch is among them.

In terms of who attends, Wilmington Area Upper El Sch reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (98%). That is noticeably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 90%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.2:1, putting Wilmington Area Upper El Sch tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 99% of students at Wilmington Area Upper El Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is above Lawrence County's rate of about 67%.

After controlling for student poverty, Wilmington Area Upper El Sch tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 35.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 40.7%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Lawrence County) records that median household income runs about $61,931, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Lawrence County's 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 11,015 students), Wilmington Area Upper El Sch is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Wilmington Area JSHS, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Wilmington Area Upper El Sch comes 8th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 56.8%.

Wilmington Area Upper El Sch operates from a countryside location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Wilmington Area Upper El Sch has shrank 60%, going from 355 students in 2018 to 142 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 in 2025.

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