Bear Creek School

Bear Creek School is an elementary campus of roomy scale in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, run under Elizabethtown Area SD, caters to 750 students in grades 3 through 5. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Bear Creek School sits 69% bigger than that benchmark.

Across the 5 schools in Elizabethtown Area SD (3,525 students total), Bear Creek School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Bear Creek School records that 81% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 8% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 3% Black, 3% Asian. Compared to Lancaster County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

In terms of school funding signals, Bear Creek School records 54 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.9:1. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 48% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Bear Creek School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 57.1%; this one delivers 62.9%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Lancaster County indicate the typical household earns roughly $86,959 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Bear Creek School is one of 114 public schools in Lancaster County (combined enrollment of about 62,719 students).

East High Street El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Bear Creek School. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Bear Creek School at 2nd of 6; the average score across the group is 56.9%.

Bear Creek School operates from a commuter-belt location.

Over the past 7-year window. Bear Creek School's enrollment has edged down 21% since 2018, when it stood at 947 (now 750). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 86% to 81% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 in 2025.

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