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Bear Creek Township, Pennsylvania - 1 schools
An equity score of 22/100 ranks Bear Creek Community Cs #594 of 648 districts in Pennsylvania (state average 49). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $15,693 per pupil, Bear Creek Community Cs ranks #503 of 671 Pennsylvania districts by per-pupil spending (Pennsylvania districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Bear Creek Community Cs operates 1 public schools serving 511 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Pennsylvania. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 elementary schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Luzerne County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $15,693 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 671 Pennsylvania districts by per-pupil spending. See how Pennsylvania compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 82.6% local, 1.3% state, and 16.1% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers. The district's equity score is 22/100, ranked #594 of 648 in Pennsylvania against a state average of 49, notably less even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
a 604:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 31.0% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 64.2% White, 16.2% Hispanic or Latino, 6.5% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Bear Creek Community Cs, enrolling 604 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Bear Creek Community Cs accounts for 100.0% of all Bear Creek Community Cs student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Bear Creek Community Cs a distant remainder — means Bear Creek Community Cs-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: elementary. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Bear Creek Community Cs student-counselor ratio is 604:1 — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.
Bear Creek Community Cs chronic absenteeism rate is 31.0% — high (typically associated with higher-than-average disruption; recent CRDC data showed elevated rates persisting after pandemic-era schooling changes)
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Bear Creek Community Cs has 1 school, including 1 elementary. Total enrollment is 511 students.
How much does Bear Creek Community Cs spend per student?
Bear Creek Community Cs spends $15,693 per student. The district has an equity score of 22/100, ranking #594 in Pennsylvania.
What is the demographic composition of Bear Creek Community Cs?
Bear Creek Community Cs students are 64.2% White, 16.2% Hispanic or Latino, 6.5% African American, 0.7% Asian, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.
What is the equity score for Bear Creek Community Cs?
Bear Creek Community Cs has an equity score of 22/100, ranking #594 out of 648 districts in Pennsylvania.