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Salisbury, Pennsylvania - 2 schools
An equity score of 90/100 ranks Salisbury-Elk Lick Sd #11 of 648 districts in Pennsylvania (state average 49). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $21,538 per pupil, Salisbury-Elk Lick Sd ranks #81 of 671 Pennsylvania districts by per-pupil spending (Pennsylvania districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
244
Total Enrollment
2
Schools
$21,538
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Salisbury-Elk Lick Sd operates 2 public schools serving 244 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Pennsylvania. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 elementary, 1 combined 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 Somerset County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $21,538 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 671 Pennsylvania districts by per-pupil spending. See how Pennsylvania compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 20.8% local, 48.7% state, and 30.5% federal, a balanced mix across local, state, and federal sources, spreading budget risk across funding cycles rather than concentrating it in one. The district's equity score is 90/100, ranked #11 of 648 in Pennsylvania against a state average of 49, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
a 127.5:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 21.3% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 95.7% White, 1.2% Asian, 0.4% African American across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Salisbury-Elk Lick El Sch, enrolling 130 students (51% of the district's total enrollment).
Salisbury-Elk Lick El Sch accounts for 51.0% of all Salisbury-Elk Lick Sd student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Salisbury-Elk Lick Sd a distant remainder — means Salisbury-Elk Lick Sd-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.
Salisbury-Elk Lick Sd student-counselor ratio is 128:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.
Salisbury-Elk Lick Sd chronic absenteeism rate is 21.3% — near the typical range (US average ~28) — aligned with the national post-pandemic baseline of roughly 28% chronic absenteeism
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 Variation between sub-units within Salisbury-Elk Lick Sd is typically wider than the Salisbury-Elk Lick Sd-aggregate figure suggests.