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Public school / Primary

Central El Sch

Elizabeth, Pennsylvania

NCES ID
420909000136
District
Elizabeth Forward SD
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Central El Sch is a public primary school in Elizabeth, Pennsylvania, run by Elizabeth Forward SD. It enrols 290 students — the 67016th largest of 2,956 public schools in Pennsylvania.

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Reported figures, 2022–2023

The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.

Enrollment

290students

67016th nationally, tied with 125

Teachers

22.0FTE

60182nd nationally, tied with 2,404

Students per teacher

13.2students

30273rd nationally, tied with 865

Free or reduced-price lunch

30.3%percent

69311th nationally, tied with 77

How these figures are defined

Enrollment

Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.

Teachers

Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.

Students per teacher

Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.

Free or reduced-price lunch

Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.

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Within Elizabeth Forward SD

Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Elizabeth Forward Shs749 students
  2. 2Elizabeth Forward Ms550 students
  3. 3William Penn El Sch341 students
  4. 4Central El Sch290 students
  5. 5Mt Vernon El Sch199 students
  6. 6Greenock El Sch197 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Pennsylvania median across 2,956 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment−43.1%
  • Teachers−37.1%
  • Students per teacher−2.2%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−40.8%
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Where this sits

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Sources & licence

Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.

Provenance

National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data — school and district directory
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.