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Exeter, Pennsylvania - 4 schools
An equity score of 58/100 ranks Wyoming Area Sd #232 of 648 districts in Pennsylvania (state average 49). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $16,558 per pupil, Wyoming Area Sd ranks #409 of 671 Pennsylvania districts by per-pupil spending (Pennsylvania districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
2,033
Total Enrollment
4
Schools
$16,558
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Wyoming Area Sd operates 4 public schools serving 2,033 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Pennsylvania. The school portfolio breaks down into 3 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 Luzerne County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $16,558 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 50.3% local, 40.5% state, and 9.2% 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 58/100, ranked #232 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.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 4 schools offering Advanced Placement (9 AP courses district-wide), a 462.1:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 53.4% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 78.3% White, 10.5% Hispanic or Latino, 4.1% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Wyoming Area Primary Ctr, with a diversity index of 41.2/100.
Its largest campus is Wyoming Area Sec Ctr, enrolling 929 students (47% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Wyoming Area Kindergarten Ctr, at 121 students, a 8x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Wyoming Area Sec Ctr accounts for 45.7% of all Wyoming Area Sd student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Wyoming Area Sd a distant remainder — means Wyoming Area Sd-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: combined. 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.
Wyoming Area Sd school enrollment varies 7.7× across entities
Wyoming Area Sd school enrollment ranges from 121 students (lowest) to 929 students (highest), a spread of 808 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous campus portfolio, most districts have a wider mix of school sizes. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Wyoming Area Sd has higher-than-average Title I eligibility — 99.6% of the population qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch
free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is the federal threshold for Title I funding allocations, established under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA, 2015). Eligibility here is a supermajority of the population — well past the 75% concentration-grant threshold that unlocks extra funding on top of the basic Title I formula. Regions with eligibility this high typically draw a substantially larger federal funding share relative to their local tax base, which can either offset or reinforce existing gaps depending on allocation policy.
Wyoming Area Sd student-counselor ratio is 462:1 — high (typically associated with staffing constraints that limit per-student counselor time; CRDC data shows higher ratios cluster in larger urban systems)
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 Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Wyoming Area Sd chronic absenteeism rate is 53.4% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
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 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.
Wyoming Area Sd has 4 schools, including 1 combined, 3 elementary. Total enrollment is 2,033 students.
How much does Wyoming Area Sd spend per student?
Wyoming Area Sd spends $16,558 per student. The district has an equity score of 58/100, ranking #232 in Pennsylvania.
What is the demographic composition of Wyoming Area Sd?
Wyoming Area Sd students are 78.3% White, 10.5% Hispanic or Latino, 4.1% African American, 0.8% Asian, averaged across 4 schools. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.
What is the equity score for Wyoming Area Sd?
Wyoming Area Sd has an equity score of 58/100, ranking #232 out of 648 districts in Pennsylvania.