Baresville El Sch

Baresville El Sch, a mid-sized elementary-level community in Hanover, Pennsylvania, run under South Western SD, teaches 586 students, covering grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 32% above the state mean of about 443.

Within South Western SD, which oversees 6 schools and 4,378 students, Baresville El Sch is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Baresville El Sch records that White students make up the majority at 79%. Other groups include 10% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 4% Black, 2% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Baresville El Sch shows 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.1:1 average. About 53% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Baresville El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 55.0%, the actual is 49.5%, a residual of -5.5 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for York County put median household earnings sit near $84,829, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, York County runs 111 public schools (combined enrollment of about 64,242 students), of which Baresville El Sch is one.

Nearest neighbor: Hanover Street El Sch, around 0.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Baresville El Sch. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Baresville El Sch at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 53.3%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Five-year trend. Baresville El Sch's enrollment has ticked up 11% since 2018, when it stood at 527 (now 586). The White share of enrollment fell from 88% to 79% over that span.

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