Elementary · Regular · Grades K to 6

Karns City Area El Sch, Chicora, PA

Karns City Area El Sch is a public elementary school in Chicora, part of Karns City Area SD. It enrolled 645 students in 2024-25, with 16.1 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students: 645
Teachers (FTE): 40.0
Students per teacher: 16.1
Grades: K to 6

This school's ratio is 4.1 higher than the district figure of 12.0. The Pennsylvania average across schools is 13.5. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school16.1

District12.0

Pennsylvania13.5

United States15.3

School details

Address: 205 Kittanning Street, Chicora, PA 16025
Phone: (724)445-3680
District: Karns City Area SD
County: Butler County
Level: Elementary
Type: Regular
Status: Open
Charter: No
Locale: Rural: Distant
NCES school ID: 420960001153

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School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.

Free lunch: 199
Reduced-price lunch: 24
Free or reduced-price lunch: 22334.6% of enrollment.
Community Eligibility Provision: No

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

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Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.