Wyalusing Valley El Sch

Set in Wyalusing, Pennsylvania, Wyalusing Valley El Sch is a mid-sized K-5 school, one of the schools within Wyalusing Area SD. It serves 633 students across grades K through 6. That puts it 43% bigger than the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 443 students.

Wyalusing Valley El Sch is one of 2 schools operated by Wyalusing Area SD, a district that educates 1,219 students overall.

On demographics, Wyalusing Valley El Sch records that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. Roughly 100% of students at Wyalusing Valley El Sch qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Bradford County (around 90%), the school's rate is north of typical.

With demographic context factored in, Wyalusing Valley El Sch tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 34.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 50.9%.

Across the wider county, census data for Bradford County shows the typical household earns roughly $63,675 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Bradford County runs 19 public schools (combined enrollment of about 8,392 students), of which Wyalusing Valley El Sch is one.

Wyalusing Valley JSHS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. On composite proficiency, Wyalusing Valley El Sch comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 47.6%.

Wyalusing Valley El Sch operates from an outlying location.

Five-year trend. Wyalusing Valley El Sch's enrollment has contracted 11% since 2018, when it stood at 713 (now 633). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.9:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 today.

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