Elementary · Pennsylvania
Northwest Area Primary Sch
Northwest Area Primary Sch, a public elementary school in Shickshinny, Pennsylvania: grades pre-k–2, 215 students, 21.5 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Northwest Area SD.
Size and class size
Compared with elementary schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 215
- Teachers (FTE)
- 10.0
- Students per teacher
- 21.5
- Grades
- Pre-K–2
- Elementary
More students per teacher than 99% of elementary schools in Pennsylvania
Median 12.9 · 1,626 schools compared
More students per teacher than 90% of elementary schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 50,575 schools compared
Smaller than 92% of elementary schools in Pennsylvania
Median 415 · 1,629 schools compared
Smaller than 86% of elementary schools in the US
Median 415 · 51,933 schools compared
State test results
No state test results published for this school: state tests cover grades 3–8, and small groups are not published.
What it offers
- Grades
- Elementary · Grades Pre-K–2
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- Some virtual classes
- Area
- Distant rural area
- Run by
- Northwest Area SD
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Northwest Area SD.
Location
- Address
- 417 Shickshinny Lake Rd, Shickshinny, PA 18655
- Phone
- (570)864-3461
- County
- Luzerne County
Nearby elementary schools
The closest public elementary schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3–6 | 260 | 10.8 | |
| K–6 | 166 | 10.8 | |
| K–6 | 308 | 9.8 | |
East Berwick El SchFree meals for all | K–4 | 539 | 13.0 |
West Berwick El SchFree meals for all | K–4 | 487 | 13.0 |
Kennedy Early Childhood CenterFree meals for all | Pre-K–2 | 505 | 14.4 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level; state test results are compared only within a state.
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